AGLIPAY, Quirino, Oct 4 (PIA) -- A total of 295 families in barangays San Leonardo, San Francisco, Dungo, and Ligaya of this town, badly hit by typhoons, will be receiving cash and food aid from the National Nutrition Council’s (NNC) post disaster Hunger Alleviation and Improved Nutrition Project (HAIN).

Beneficiaries of the project are mostly families with malnourished children.

In the orientation and launch of the program, Region 2 NNC head Rhodora Maestre said HAIN aims to alleviate hunger among selected needy population in areas affected by typhoons Pedring and Quiel last year.

“While the lives of many of the areas and families affected have ‘normalized,’ some families particularly the nutritionally-vulnerable population groups continue to be challenged to provide for their own basic needs such as food,” Maestre said.

Each beneficiary will work for 20 days in the projects proposed by their barangays through the barangay chairperson as head of the barangay nutrition committee.

They will receive a kilo of rice and P138.75 per day for a total of P 168.75/day or 75 percent of prevailing minimum wage.

The rice will be distributed on the same day as the cash will be given to the workers. The rice will be procured from NFA and it should be iron-fortified (IFR) well-milled rice to respond to high levels of anemia.

Beneficiaries must present a certification of completion from the organization responsible for the “work” along with a supporting document such as attendance to support their claims.

Some of the projects proposed are home /community/ school gardening, roadside cleaning and beautification, canal dredging, multi-purpose shed construction, handwashing facility/pathway construction and NNC-Municipal nursery construction. (TCB-PIA 2, Quirino)