BAGUIO CITY -- Nutrition practitioners now have an online library of information to guide them in pursuing their mandate to make children healthy.

This after the National Nutrition Council-Cordillera Administrative Region (NNC-CAR) launched on Wednesday the “Nutri Abung (house)”.

The “Abung” is a virtual room where nutrition-related reference documents, records, and files are uploaded by the NNC-CAR and members for easy access.

Rita Papey, Nutrition Program Coordinator for the Cordillera, said on Thursday that the Facebook (FB) page is like a “filing cabinet and library” where nutrition information resources can be seen, shared, and even conduct conversations to enhance coordination, monitoring, and capacity building.

 "It also serves as a chat room. where conversations among members take place and where reports, documents can be submitted and received,” she said.

She said the FB page is a private group with nutrition action officers, district and city nutrition action officers, Barangay Nutrition Scholars (BNS), Regional Nutrition technical assistants on nutrition, NNC-CAR staff, and other relevant functions with nutrition concerns.

“We can no longer do face to face activities with this pandemic but work on nutrition has to go on,” thus the creation of the page to continue providing information to nutrition implementers and practitioners, Papey said.

“With Nutri Abung, we can continue to connect and even connect with better efficiency among each other for capacity building, monitoring, and coordination," she said.

The FB page targets the more than 2,300 barangay nutrition scholars who have Facebook accounts.

“It is our objective that at least 90% of the target members who are Nutrition Action Officers, District Nutrition Program Coordinators and RTANs and at least 30 percent of Barangay Nutrition Scholars become members of the Nutri-Abung,” Papey said.

Papey said they hope to reach all nutrition workers by the end of the year through their FB page. (By Liza Agoot PNA)