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Robredo and PWDs

THE late Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo had always made known that his personal advocacies included looking after the welfare of people with disabilities (PWDs). “This is personal to me,” he said in his keynote address at the launching last April 18 of the Fully Abled Nation, a multisectoral initiative to encourage PWDs to register and vote in the 2013 midterm elections. “I am no stranger to PWDs.”

Robredo and PWDs

Jesse Robredo, ‘most respected DILG secretary’

ISABELA, Basilan -- FILIPINOS even in the farthest parts of the country mourned the death of Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo. In the conflict-ridden province of Basilan, a meeting of the provincial peace and order council that he was scheduled to attend became a tribute to Robredo, who was called "the most respected DILG secretary."

Jesse Robredo, ‘most respected DILG secretary’