Municipal Environment and Natural Resources (MENRO) chief Evangeline Panganiban said Thursday that the annual festivity aims "to echo the importance of cleaning Manila Bay so that creatures like 'pawikan' can live and multiply."
Panganiban added that the event will also feature the waters around Naic, which she described as "still clean and inhabitable to 'pawikan.'"
Friday's activities will start with a cleanup around the coastal areas of Naic at 7 a.m.
A poster-making contest from among students from Naic's secondary schools follows at 10 a.m. while fun games are set at 1 p.m. to build up and set up the mood for the main activity at 3 p.m.
The event's highlight will be the releasing of 'pawikan' hatchlings to the waters of Naic at 5:00 p.m.
The event will also feature the re-launching of "Mr. Paw," an Android application developed by Cavite State University (CvSU)-Naic campus students, meant to engage the millennials in Naic's environmental advocacy.
The application will offer information and develop an appreciation of Pawikan, and some online games.
Naic is one of Cavite's first-class municipalities and agricultural towns with its vast areas devoted to agriculture.
It has 30 barangays, where 10 are in the coastal areas facing Manila Bay, thus its long coastline teems with beaches. [Gladys Sineres Pino, PNA]
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