January 30, 2014 - As part of its series of advocacy fora on the Nutritional Guidelines for Filipinos, the National Nutrition Council-NCR convened over three hundred Barangay Nutrition Scholars (BNSs) from all over Metro Manila for the Advocacy Forum on Marketing the NGF. The forum was held on January 30, 2014 at the King and Queen Hall of the Makati Palace Hotel.

The advocacy forum was intended to disseminate the revised nutritional guidelines among the BNSs and to equip them with adequate knowledge and skills to help them in the promotion of NGF in their community.

Each guideline was discussed by NPC Milagros Elisa V. Federizo by showing related video clips from the TV show “Busog Lusog” of NNC which was aired over ABS-CBN Channel 2 a few years ago. NNC-NCR also invited Ms. Vivien Mangalindan, a broadcaster and community strategist, to help the BNSs in marketing the NGF. In her talk entitled “High Impact Communication Skills for BNSs”, Ms. Mangalindan discussed points on how to effectively present the guidelines and encourage community members to promote and practice the nutritional guidelines.

The BNSs signed on the pledge of commitment wall to declare their support in the region-wide NGF promotion by disseminating these messages among the people in their communities and by practicing them as well.

Through its series of advocacy fora with different stakeholders, NNC-NCR hopes to gather more support in promoting the NGF throughout the region.