WHEREAS, section 10 (a) of Republic Act No. 1179, as amended by Republic Act No. 2615, authorizes the President of the Philippines to set aside an annual fund-raising week to be known as œAid to the Blind and Handicapped Week,  the money realized therefrom to constitute a trust fund called the œBlind and Handicapped Fund  under the control and administration of the Social Welfare Administrator;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Diosdado Macapagal, President of the Philippines, do hereby declare the period from February 3 to 9, 1963, as œAid to the Blind and Handicapped Week,  during which the National Council on Rehabilitation shall conduct a campaign for funds for the blind and other handicapped persons.

I call upon all citizens and residents of this country, as well as all civic-spirited organizations and associations, to support this campaign.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.

Done in the City of Manila, this 30th day of January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and sixty three.

DIOSDADO MACAPAGAL
President of the Philippines

By the President:
SALVADOR L. MARI O
Executive Secretary