The Quezon City Animation Fair, an event with the intention of bringing animation talents, key players and aspirants together to create a larger encounter of and awareness about the Philippine Animation industry and explore the opportunities available in the industry

With the main thrust in making the Division of Quezon City a drug-free community, the school and city officials through the collaboration of Barangay leaders, Teachers and Supreme Student Government (SSG) Presidents, have joined together for a Division Launching of ‘Dislike Drugs’ Campaign Project held on Jan. 8 at Ponciano Bernardo Elementary School (PBES).

Hon. Herbert Bautista, City Mayor, attended the said undertaking and challenged all the participants to heed his call in combatting drug-users by motivating the teachers and students through the joint efforts of school officials to be in one with the government sectors and with the church in raising anti-drug awareness as it causes major mental and physical health deterrents among users which if not controlled may lead to crime proliferation.

Meanwhile, Dr. Victoria Fuentes, Education Consultant, spoke in behalf of Hon. Feliciano Belmonte, Speaker of the House of Representatives, by transpiring to the participants his message.

From the message conveyed, it was reiterated that people should identify appropriate intervention in fighting for drug-related cases and religiously call all government sectors to perform significant role in intensifying awareness for this campaign project.

Asec Abe Lemos, Deputy Director General of Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) , speaker on the said launching program, encouraged all the participants to extend hand in making this campaign project viable by putting its main thrust into realization.

Dr.Maria Noemi Moncada, President of Principals Association(PRINSA), spearheaded the pledge of commitment with the school officials, PDEA members ,school principals, PTA officers, SSG leaders,Alternative Learning System (ALS) students, and barangay leaders who vowed to push through the relevance of this noble project.

On the other hand,Head of the ICT Department in the Division Office, Mrs. Cristina Marquez, headed the launching of the ‘Dislike Drugs’ Campaign via Facebook through a Ceremonial Acceptance Friend Request which invites all the participants to support this campaign project.

The launching of the ‘Dislike Drugs’ Campaign Facebook, the Ceremonial Acceptance Friend Request and the signing on the Wall of Commitment marked the highlight of this event.

Furthermore, Dr.Elizabeth Quesada, CESO V, Schools Division Superintendent; Dr. Elizabeth Meneses, Chief of Curriculum and Implementation Division; Dr.Ligaya Regis, Chief of School Governance and Operations Division and other members of the academe graced the said event .

This campaign project was organized by Dr. Ludevina Bruan, Senior Education Curriculum Specialist, in coordinationwith the School Governance and Operations Division and Human Resource Development.

The Department of Education (DepEd), along with four government agencies, signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the Bagumbayani and Kalibrr to democratize the recruitment through widening the contracting net and the market reach of the government online.

Kalibrr is a job-matching online platform for job seekers and companies. Its cloud-based platform enhances the way applicants find jobs and companies hire talents through its series of enhanced assessments. Bagumbayani is a youth organization consisting of civil servants promoting positive change and integrity in the government by sustainably recruiting young people into the civil service.

“To us in DepEd, better government service depends on having the right people for the right job to serve our Filipino learners in the best way we can. We look forward to maximizing our partnership with Kalibrr and Bagumbayani so we can cast our nets wider and allow for merit-based recruitment and talent sourcing that allows Filipinos anywhere in the world to be given a chance to take part in the deep and unique privilege of serving the Filipino people through government service,” said DepEd Undersecretary Rizalino Rivera.

​ “We are not only helping people get jobs, we are making an impact to the trajectory of the Philippines by helping connect inspiring and progressive public servants to government. Through combination of technology and the desire to bring change, we are transforming what it means to find a job in government. I will give you an example: A job seeker in Davao can now by just being on the internet learn about and engage with the thousands of government jobs. Before Kalibrr, these jobs may have been online or may not have onlive and would require visit to that Department in its Metro Manila office,” Paul Rivera, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and co-founder of Kalibrr, said.

According to the Kalibrr CEO, this partnership will “break the notion that in order forsomeone to land a job in government, one should be connected with someone else inside.” This partnership intends to make government jobs accessible to all online.

“I have seen the challenges in the human resource and development in the bureaucracy. Sourcing is not really a problem for us. Talent pool management is not totally practiced in the bureaucracy. Our human resource is more on personnel administration role and we need to transform it into human resource reform,” Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Undersecretary Angelita Gregorio-Medel said.

The five new agencies—DepEd, DSWD, Department of Finance - Bureau of Local Government Finance (DOF-BLGF), Department of Transportation and Communications(DOTC), and Public Private Partnership (PPP) Center—are the second batch of government agencies to sign agreements with Kalibrr and Bagumbayani. The first batch of government agencies which signed on August 27, 2015: the Department of Finance (DOF), the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR), the Department of Budget and Management (DBM), the Department of Tourism (DOT) and the Civil Service Commission (CSC).