Amper Family of Sitio Bula, Brgy Carol-an, Kabankalan City poses with their newly-released PSA-issued Birth Certificates.

04 September 2024 – KABANKALAN CITY, NEGROS OCCIDENTAL. The Amper family receives their PSA-issued Birth Certificates on 04 September 2024 and breaks the record for having the most number of simultaneous birth registrations under a single household in Negros Occidental.

The eleven members of their family availed the Birth Registration Assistance Project (BRAP) of the Philippine Statistics Authority in partnership with the Local Government Unit of Kabankalan City through the City Civil Registrar’s Office, including both the parents and their nine children. Thus, surpassing the current record of seven registrations in one instance. 

Mr. Julito B. Amper, the head of the family, expresses his gratitude towards the PSA Negros Occidental and the City Civil Registrar’s Office of Kabankalan City for making civil registration services more accessible to people from the far-flung areas of the province through their mobile registration initiatives. He admits that their delayed birth registration is partly caused by the geographical difficulty of their home, pointing out that it takes roughly an hour and a half to reach the city center including a 
20-minute trek from their home to the barangay proper.

Representatives from the PSA Negros Occidental and the City Civil Registrar’s Office of Kabankalan City headed by Acting City Civil Registrar Monalisa D. Tabujara awarded the PSA-issued Birth Certificates of the family on 04 September 2024. Aside from this, the family also received tokens of appreciation from both the agency and the LGU. 

BRAP is one of the many projects implemented by PSA in collaboration with the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) and Local Government Unit (LGU) through the Provincial (HUC/Independent Component City) Government principally aims to increase civil registration especially in marginalized communities, particularly those belonging to the Indigenous People (IP), Muslim Filipinos, and the poorest sector to ensure that all births of Filipino are registered in Local Civil  Registry Offices.

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