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TUGUEGARAO CITY, -- The Regional Nutrition Committee (RNC) – Region 2 announced the regional champions in nutrition program, based on the 2012 monitoring and evaluation of local level plan implementation.
For the outstanding province, Quirino garnered the green banner and was automatically elevated into Consistent Regional Outstanding Winner in Nutrition (CROWN).
The municipality of Sta Fe, Nueva Vizcaya successfully snatched the first place in the outstanding municipality category, followed by Sabtang, Batanes and Penablanca, Cagayan as the third place winner.
Cauayan City was proclaimed as outstanding city.
Rhodora Maestre, Regional Nutrition Program Coordinator, said all winners will be given due recognition in an awarding ceremony on October 25 at Santiago City, Isabela.
Maestre said the two local government units (LGUs) are also contenders of the region in the National Honor Awards, the highest recognition on nutrition program implementation in the country.
The LGUs include Batanes province for the province category, Santiago City of the city category while Lallo, Cagayan is being validated for its first year CROWN maintenance award.
She added that the results of the three national contenders are yet to be revealed soon.
Maestre is very positive that the contenders will again bring home the award as that of the previous contenders.
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The First semester Regional Barangay Nutrition Scholars Federation meeting took place in the presence of the National Nutrition Council Region 02 last September 13, 2012 at the Kainang Pilipino restaurant in Tuguegarao City. The Meeting comprised of the BNS Presidents from the provinces of Cagayan Valley.
Ms. Mercedes Cara, Federation president presided the meeting. In her opening message stated that she was inspired by the commitment of the federation members to the upcoming plans and activities.
It was also attended by Region 02 Nutrition Program Coordinator Rhodora G. Maestre and NNC staff.
The meeting’s agenda included the presentation of the highlights of the National Federation meeting, amendments and enactment of the consitution and by-laws, Regional BNS federation logo, and reporting on the accomplishments of each province.
Those present also discussed additionally, other concerns relating to the programs of the RNC, such as the current status of the acquisition of height boards, the condition of the stationed Nutri Carts, as well as the ratio of BNS who underwent training.
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AGLIPAY, Quirino, Oct 17 (PIA) -- The National Nutrition Council (NNC) Region 2 visited barangays Ligaya, San Leonardo, Dungo, and San Francisco here to personally lead the provision of cash and rice incentives to typhoon-affected families under the post-disaster Hunger Alleviation and Improved Nutrition (HAIN) Project of government.
Rhodora Maestre, NNC regional head, said 39 beneficiaries from Ligaya and 71 from Dungo received P555 plus four kilos of rice each for their four-day work in the identified projects in their barangay.
Some 123 beneficiaries of San Leonardo also received P416.25 and three kilos of rice each for their three-day work and 60 from San Franciso got P1,110 and eight kilos of rice each for their eight days work.
Luningning Pacudan-Rhodes, provincial nutrition officer, said the beneficiaries will work for 20 days in the projects proposed in their barangays such as roadside cleaning and planting of malunggay, canal clearing, construction of handwashing facilities and comfort rooms and others.
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Tuguegarao City- The National Nutrition Council Region 02 office conducted a one-day training seminar and workshop for the provinces of the region last September 14,2012 in the NNC Region 02 conference room.
The training was attended by staff from each city and each province in Region 02, save for Batanes which had a separate one-on-one training.
The activity was started with the preliminaries, and followed by an introduction on the nature of the seminar. Lectures were provided by NNC staff (Ms. Benjielyne Estudillo NO II and Mr. Mikael Maestre , Detailed Staff) on the framework and basic principles on drafting web articles, as well as do's and don'ts and additional tips in the drafting thereof.
After the lecture and discussion, the participants were subjected to a workshop, wherein each city/province was tasked to create their own facebook page and thereafter draft their first article. Staff from the NNC R02 Office will monitor the progress of each page at the end of each month and evaluate the pages' performance in terms such as functionality and popularity.
Nutrition Program Coordinator Rhodora Maestre gave her message near the end of the workshop, emphasizing the need to expand on information dissemination by the nutrition offices of each area in the region to the people. She urged the participants to properly integrate the new role of those who participated into their current duties.
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CABARROGUIS, Quirino, Oct 20 (PIA) -- The Coca-Cola Bottlers Philippines Inc., in partnership with the Department of Education, launched its Nutri-Juice Feeding Program which will benefit some 10,000 school children from 167 schools in the province.
The nutri-juice was developed by the company, in partnership with the Food and Nutrition Research Institute of the Department of Science and Technology (FNRI-DOST), to advocate good health and improve the nutrition status of malnourished children, Edna dela Cruz of Coca-Cola said.
“Quirino was chosen as one of the beneficiaries, along with Tuguegarao City in region 2 and other provinces in the country, because of the high prevalence of iron deficiency anemia among school children,” dela Cruz said.
The Nutri-Juice is orange-flavored contained in a 200 ml tetra pack, she said.
It is fortified with vitamins A and C, iron, zinc and lysine, which can contribute to lessen the prevalence of micronutrient deficiencies among children, specifically in iron.
The nutri-juice is given free to the school children as part of the Coca-Cola’s corporate social responsibility and in celebration of its 100th anniversary.
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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.
Read more: Nutrition council post-disaster project benefits typhoon victims
