Alliance of Concerned Teachers Declares National Chalk Holiday on September 16, 2011

The Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT Teachers) is a progressive, militant and nationalist organization of teachers, academic non-teaching personnel and non-academic non-teaching personnel established on June 26, 1982 in the Philippines. It is the largest non-traditional teachers’ organization in the country which works for the economic and political well-being of teachers and all other education workers as well as for genuine social transformation. (Wikipedia)

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4th Monday of September as "Filipino Family Day" - Presidential Proclamation 1895

Through the untiring efforts of Lucky Me!, the first National FaMEALy Day - Araw ng Pagkilala na Kainang Pamilya Mahalaga was launched in 2008 FaMEALy Day became a nationwide call to celebrate family dining every 4th Monday of September as supported through a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) signed between the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and the National Committee for Filipino Families (NCFF). Last September 30, 2009, Presidential Proclamation 1895 was issued declaring the commemoration of the Filipino Family Day every 4th Monday of September. Coincidentally, National FaMEALy Day coincides with the first day of DSWD's National Family Week.

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