MORE than 300 employees from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in City of San Fernando, including participants from the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB), Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) and the DENR Pampanga Office, walked together in solidarity as part of the Women’s Month celebration, in an event dubbed “Lakad-likasan: Bawat Hakbang Handog sa Kababaihan at Kalikasan.”

The participants march around the regional government center in a bid to raise awareness about the empowerment of women as active contributors to and claimholders of development, by bringing attention to the theme “We Make Change Work for Women.”

The event kicked off with a Zumba session precluding the walk around the government center. It was followed by a clean-up activity in support of Manila Bay cleanup and rehabilitation.

The participants cleaned up a 1.5 kilometer stretch of connected streets, including exposed canals, and collected residual trash made up of 40 percent single-use plastics and food wrappers, 30 percent residual soiled paper waste and 30 percent recyclables.

Republic Act (RA) 6949 of 1990 declared March 8 of every year as National Women’s Day. Women’s Month 2020 aims to inform and engage women as stakeholders of government program and services.