The National Nutrition Council Region 2 successfully staged a Batang Radyo sa Nutrisyon Congress held last October 11 – 13, 2013 at Baguio City, participated by some 200 Batang Radyo Broadcasters to foster broader exposure, and upgrading of technical abilities on the promote good nutrition concept of the National Nutrition Council.

With the theme: “Wastong Nutrisyon, Alam ko, Sasabihin ko, Gagawin ko” (Practice what they are communicating)the congress aims to a.) Enhance the knowledge, skills and technical ability of Batang Radyo in radio broadcasting, b.) Encourage Batang Radyo sa Nutrisyon to be role models in practicing and promoting good nutrition and c.) Create camaraderie among the Batang Radyo sa Nutrisyon d.) Build awareness on the 2012 Nutritional Guidelines for Filipinos and e.) Instill values on good nutrition

The Congress emphasizes the significance of mitigating hunger and malnutrition and promotion of the Nutritional Guidelines for Filipinos among school children, and adaptation of efforts and focuses on how each individual, school and community in the region can contribute in mitigating malnutrition in school.

Batang Radyo was developed to set an adversity against the ongoing fight against malnutrition: A large percentage (9.99% or 45,194 SC as of June 2012 - 2013) of cases of wasted and severely wasted children were found to belong to the school-age bracket, with Isabela province (13.69%), Cauayan City (13.36%) and Santiago City (12.02%) topping the list as first, second, and third place, respectively. These figures were found to be principally caused by poor dietary and health habits and practices, and poor nutrition knowledge.

Seeing as school nutrition in such a state, the National Nutrition Council Region 02 in partnership with the Department of Education and the Local Government Units saw an opportunity to seal the satiability of nutrition education programs by partnering with local government units and local radio broadcasting stations and came forth with the concept of introducing a Radio program by kids for good nutrition.

Activities during the BRSN Camp includes lecture on broadcast proper broadcast speech, re – enforcement training on news writing and infomercial production, fun plenary sessions, interactive break-out sessions, outdoor activities and contest such as script writing and article news writing on NGF.

Participants to the congress are the official BRSN broadcaster and coaches from: Claveria, Cagayan, Lal – lo, Cagayan, Tuguegarao City, Cauayan City , Santiago City and Nueva Vizcaya.