La Trinidad police help children

LA TRINIDAD, Benguet -- Valley cops here are helping kids.

Valley top cop Byron Allatog led the opening of the newest police led outreach program with the local Masonic Lodge group.

The launching of the joint venture “Adopt a school program, feeding activity” will benefit the children of the La Trinidad Rehabilitation Center for Special Children with a series of feeding programs weekly.

Policemen and WB Christian Nool, worshipful master, will troop to the rehabilitation center twice a week for the feeding program.

A schedule for both groups was crafted making every Wednesday of the week covered by the police and every Friday of the week covered by the Masonic Lodge.

The rehabilitation center caters to at least 30 children and being managed by the Local Government of Trinidad under the supervision and care of Municipal Social Welfare and Development Office.

The program is one activity being done by the local police to adhere to its social responsibility in helping for the development of some sector of the community who are less privileged by uplifting the nutrition program, which is a vital and integral part of social reform and economic development.

The program is geared toward uplifting the plight of children in the Valley starting with the children from rehabilitation center.

The center provides physical and occupational therapies and day care services to kids with cerebral palsy, autism, hydrocephalus, global developmental delay, Down syndrome, multiple disability, mental retardation, and hearing impairment, among other illnesses.