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The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) officially declared June 12 as the start of rainy season. Yes, it is officially rainy season and we are still facing the threat of COVID-19 pandemic.
Aside from the threat of the pandemic, other possible illnesses and diseases may also affect us during this season. According to DOH, common diseases during the rainy season include diarrhea, water-borne diseases such as typhoid fever, cholera, leptospirosis, and vector-borne diseases such as malaria and dengue. The best weapon against these diseases is building a strong resistance and practicing personal hygiene and environmental sanitation.
To have a strong resistant body, we need to eat a variety of food that can give us the nutrients we can utilize as our defense against bacteria and viruses that may cause these diseases.
Read more: Nourishing and protecting our body against diseases this rainy days
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City of San Fernando, La Union-- The LUPang Ilocos Barangay Nutrition Scholars Federation, Inc. (LUPangIlocosBNSFed.,Inc.) through its Resolution No.1 series of 2020, “Implementation of BNS Loans to Provide Financial Assistance for the Barangay Nutrition Scholars (BNSs) in the Region During the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis Who are Badly in Need” provides Two Hundred Thousand Pesos (P200,000.00) worth of loan assistance with zero percent (0%) interest to in-need BNSs in Region I. It was approved on 6th of May 2020 during the second virtual meeting of its board.
The idea emanated during the discussion of realignment and postponement of its lined-up activities this 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. “Dahil may pondo naman tayo at dahil hindi naman lahat ng mga BNSs ay nakakuha ng SAP, pwede rin nating tulungan ang mga kasamahan natin na nangangailangan din…”, said Regional BNS Vice-President and Former President Nory Estoesta which was instantly seconded by the current President Ms. Amelita Dahuya and the rest of the board
Alaminos City’s ECCD-F1K duck raising, a continuous source of food and income amid COVID-19 pandemic
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ALAMINOS CITY— During this pandemic, the beneficiaries of the city’s duck raising are now benefitting from the project as their most accessible source of protein food and additional source of income especially during this time where source of living to most are interrupted.
This is one of the component of the Early Childhood Care and Development in the First 1000 Days program (ECCD-F1K) intervention package piloted by the National Nutrition Council in the city under home and community food production where establishment of home gardens and small animal raising are strongly encouraged to help household in having sustainable access to safe and nutritious food for their daily dietary needs and eventually help the family’s concerns on malnutrition.
The said project was then established in 2018 where the city nutrition committee (CNC) distributed 3,000 mature ducks to 500 households and additional 200 beneficiaries were benefited in 2019.
Each beneficiary who are families with 0-23 months old children, pregnant and lactating women received 1 male and 5 female ducks and encouraged to breed the ducks as their additional food and income source which eventually succeeded over time.
Other beneficiaries are also reaching out with their in need neighborhood by sharing some of their produce and even the duck eggs.
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In today’s trying times, th
e livelihood of most of our constituents were totally challenged due to the limited movement of people which might result to a bigger problem on household food security and provision of basic needs if not properly managed. The huge role of the government to this concern is much expected than usual.
Household food production also play a crucial role as the most accessible family food source during the community quarantine to augment the food packs distributed by the government and other concerned sectors.
What happened to the Early Childhood Care and Development for the First 1000 days (ECCD-F1K) program’s home food production particularly in Urdaneta City? Just a flashback in 2018, the city provided 209 native hogs and in 2019, another 97 goats to the beneficiaries of the program who are families with pregnant and lactating women and with children under 2 years old in addition to the intensive promotion and establishment of home gardening.
Read more: Urdaneta City’s F1K animal raising, an exception livelihood source amid COVID-19 pandemic
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TAGUDIN, Ilocos Sur, May 16 (April M. Bravo, PIA Ilocos Sur) – As families stay in their respective homes during the community quarantine due to the threats of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the local government here promotes backyard gardening to help ensure that households will have their own source of food in the coming days.
The local government unit (LGU) of Tagudin, through the Municipal Agriculture Office and the Municipal Nutrition Action Office, launched last Friday, May 15, the GLOW Tagudin – a “grow your own food” backyard gardening activity which primarily aims to ensure food security.
Clariza Jane Carganilla, municipal nutrition action officer of LGU-Tagudin, said, "This nutrition-sensitive intervention also helps vulnerable families by growing organic nutritious vegetables or glow foods to boost the immunity and prevent malnutrition posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.”
She said that free vegetable seeds such as pechay, eggplant, squash, string beans and lady finger were distributed to the identified 20 household-beneficiaries in the 16 barangays of Tagudin.
“Family-beneficiaries in the remaining 27 barangays of the municipality will receive their free vegetable seeds next week,” she told the Philippine Information Agency (PIA).
Read more: Backyard gardening pushed to secure food source amidst COVID-19 threat
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ASAP TAGUDIN! (Municipal Government of Tagudin, Ilocos Sur) - The Organikong Gulayan sa Barangay thru the Municipal Nutrition Committee (MNC) is the response of the Local Government Unit (LGU) of Tagudin, Ilocos Sur to the growing problem on malnutrition in the municipality especially in times of crisis. To the community, it is considered an effective poverty reduction and mitigation effort - through the establishment of community gardens – a self-reliant activity which helps the community in eliminating malnutrition and hunger as well as to promote agri-eco tourism.
This project started wayback 2013, when Tagudin was declared as Top 1 on the Operation Timbang Plus Results having the highest prevalence rate on malnutrition not only in the province of Ilocos Sur but entire Region 1 with a total of 464 (13.6%) underweight preschool children. Having been alarmed, the MNC convened a meeting to address the said inopportune situation and aside from the LGU’s regular programs, the body came up with then the Gulayan sa Barangay Project participated by all forty-three (43) barangays in the municipality. While this incentive-based approach is spearheaded by the MNC closely monitored by the Municipal Agriculture Office (MAO) and the Municipal Nutrition Action Office (MNAO), the Barangay Nutrition Committee (BNC) is responsible on its implementation at the grassroots level.
Read more: Tagudin-LGU Escalates Organikong Gulayan sa Barangay this COVID-19 Crisis
