Answer:
Republic Act 8044
The Youth in Nation-Building Act
An act creating the National Youth Commission, establishing a National Comprehensive and Coordinated Program on Youth Development, Appropriating Funds Therefore, and for Other Purposes.
Republic of the Philippines
Congress of the Philippines
Metro Manila
Third Regular Session
Begun and held in Metro Manila, on Monday, the twenty-fifth day of July, nineteen hundred and ninety-four.
[ REPUBLIC ACT NO. 8044 ]
AN ACT CREATING THE NATIONAL YOUTH COMMISSION, ESTABLISHING A NATIONAL COMPREHENSIVE AND COORDINATED PROGRAM ON YOUTH DEVELOPMENT , APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:
SECTION 1. Title – This Act shall be known as the ” Youth in Nation-Building Act”.
SECTION 2. Policy – The State recognizes its responsibility to enable the youth to fulfill their vital role in nation-building and hereby establishes the National Comprehensive and Coordinated Program on Youth Development, creates the structures to implement the same and appropriate adequate funds to provide support for the program and implementing structures on a continuing sustained basis.
The State hereby declares that “Youth” is the critical period in a person’s growth and development from the onset of adolescence towards the peak of mature, self-reliant and responsible adulthood comprising the considerable sector of the population from the age of fifteen (15) to thirty (30) years.
Explanation:
