Basilan. The Mayors of Municipality of Akbar, Al-Barka, Hji. Mohammad Ajul and Lantawan of Basilan signed the memorandum of understanding for the implementation of the Tutok Kainan Supplementation Program in their respective municipality.
Through this agreement, the NNC and the LGU’s jointly agree to undertake complementary feeding of 06-23 months old children as an intervention in addition to their local nutrition program including initiatives supporting the ECCD F1K. This program aims to provide technical and logistical support to 240 children of Basilan.

The four (4) municipalities were targeted due to high rate of stunting in the area. The LGU’s recognize their important role in ensuring the holistic development of its children as integral in enhancing the quality of its human resource and in achieving sustainable local government development. Each LCE promised to show their full support for the successful implementation of the program.

The Tutok Kainan is a strategic component of the National Dietary Supplementation Program of the Philippine Plan of Action for Nutrition 2017-2022 which aims to prevent stunting of children by giving nutritious food commodities to nutritionally at-risk pregnant women and children 06-23 months old. The NNC leads the implementation of the program in collaboration with the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) on Zero Hunger.

Author: PNFP Omar Butlangan