The National Nutrition Council Region 02, hand in hand with the City of Tuguegarao with support from the Rotary Rainbow of Tuguegarao recently conducted the “Kalesa Painting Contest 2013” as a celebratory activity for the Nutrition Month.

The said activity involved the secondary schools, colleges, and universities in the City through their students and coaches; where each participating school were given kalesas to paint nutrition-related messages on - These nutrition-related messages involved the Revised Nutritional Guidelines for Filipinos 2012.

The painting portion of the contest formally began on Monday, July 8, 2013 and lasted until the morning of Wednesday, July 10, 2013. After painting, the kalesas were arranged and were judged, and were subsequently bared to the public during a kalesacade around the poblacion of the city, also held on that day.

The results of the contest will be announced in a culminating activity to be held at the end of the month of July.