After a successful launch in Quezon City, what’s next for the ‘right to care’ card?

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One year after its launch, bringing the ‘right to care’ card to as many Quezon City residents as possible and getting other cities to adopt it have become a challenge

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As of Saturday, June 22, 171 couples have attended at least one of the 20 orientations held by the GAD office. Meanwhile, a total of 116 couples were given their “right to care” cards. Around 38 of these couples received their copies on Saturday in celebration of theQC GAD head Janete Oviedo also told Rappler in an interview on June 18 that several hospitals have already called the GAD office to confirm whether certain queer couples are registered to the “right to care” program.

FIRST STEP. First batch of queer couples attend the orientation for Quezon City’s ‘right to care card’ on August 4, 2023. Russell Ku/Rappler “Since these are every Saturday, we do not have overtime pay. This is voluntary work,” Oviedo added. De Guzman is optimistic that more local governments would adopt the card as he said that two cities have shown interest in the program.

Since that meeting, the “right to care” team has set two key indicators to see whether the program is feasible to pitch to an LGU. The local government should ideally have a gender and development office and should have

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