QUEZON CITY – As part of regional activities for the 46th Nutrition Month celebration, NNC MIMAROPA, through the assistance of Region IV-B Provincial/City Nutrition Action Officers (P/CNAOs), joined forces to conduct Makatang BNS: Tula para sa Nutrisyon – a poem writing contest for Barangay Nutrition Scholars (BNSs). The activity aimed to utilize poetry to create awareness on stunting and the first 1000 days, and to promote the importance of nutrition in the prevention of stunting among pre-school children.
BNSs were challenged to unleash their knowledge and creativity in writing a poem relevant to the 2020 Nutrition Month theme “Batang Pinoy, Sana Tall… Iwas Stunting, Sama All! Iwas All din sa COVID-19!”. The contest simultaneously started at 8:30 in the morning at various nutrition offices, facilitated by the respective Local Nutrition Action Officers and District/City Nutrition Program Coordinators.
Contest outputs will be judged based the following criteria: relevance to the theme (25%), organization/coherence of thought (20%), poetic structure (15%), originality (15%) and public impact (25%). To determine public impact, entries will be posted on the NNC MIMAROPA facebook page and will be ranked based from the number of shares and reactions.
Winners will be announced on the first week of August and will receive special prizes such as Nutrition Month Shirt and cash prizes worth Php 5, 000.00 (first place), Php 3, 500.00 (2nd place), Php 2, 000.00 (third place) and Php 1, 000.00 (consolation prize).
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