Madridejos, Cebu – All roads led to Madridejos in the Island of Bantayan, North Cebu on 11 June 2015, as the Pantawid Pamilya Inter-agency Convergence Caravan takes its major services, programs and projects to the otherwise sleepy island municipality.

The National Nutrition Council led by NPC Dr. Parolita A. Mission and her team composed BNS Coordinator Lucia C. Arellano, AA III Eduardo B. Baguio and Bantayan Is. BNS Association President Joseph Chaves, joined other national line agencies such as DOH, DOLE, DA, DTI, DAR, DENR, TESDA, DepEd, DILG and DSWD to provide its brand of nutrition services.

The team oomphed up basic nutrition education with interactive nutrition games on the 10 Kumainments as a bid to increase awareness amongst the more than 400 Pantawid Pamilya beneficiaries in the area.  

Fully loaded with recipe books, 10 Kumainments fans and sample iodized salt as prizes and giveaways, the NNC 7 team has certainly gained not only the attention of the Caravan beneficiaries, they have also earned Central Visayas another batch of nutritionally well informed community.

The activity, which was led by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) 7, is aimed to bring government services to areas with high incidence and magnitude of the poor in the region.//NGS