Cebu City – National Nutrition Council 7 led by Dr. Parolita A. Mission, Nutrition Program Coordinator, together with the officers and members of the Media Information Network for Nutrition and Development 7 (MIND 7), headed by its President and Station Manager of DYLA & Kapisanan ng mga Broadcaster ng Pilipinas (KBP) Cebu Chapter President, Mr. Jun P. Tagalog, joined the KBP’s back-to-back events in launching the Broadcasters’ Month celebration: the Broadcastreeing and the Grand Parade on 31 August and 07 September 2014, respectively.

About 3000 seedlings were planted by close to 200 participants during the Oplan Broadcastreeing. The Urban Greening Project is a tree planting activity which is being coordinated by the KBP and DILG together with the DENR which is the main implementer of the National Greening Program per Executive Order No. 26 signed by President Benigno Aquino III. The nationwide simultaneous tree planting activity was held in areas identified by the DENR as sites where the National Greening Program is being implemented. The Barangay Nutrition Scholars (BNSs) of Cebu City led by their President, Ms. Inocencia Tambulero joined the activity as well.  The NNC 7, MIND 7 team and the BNSs headed back towards the City past 11:00 a.m. that day feeling satisfied and savoring good memories.

In related development, NNC 7 and MIND 7 participated the Grand Parade on 07 September 2014 to open the Broadcasters Month celebration this September.   The activity was spearheaded by the KBP Cebu Chapter. The walkers assembled at Fuente Osmeña and passed through the major thoroughfares of Cebu City particularly Osmeña Blvd., Colon Street, D. Jakosalem Street and Sanciangko Street.  The walk ended at the University of the Visayas gymnasium where a mass and a short program took place.

MIND 7, the regional media group organized by NNC 7 is composed of legitimate media practitioners from print, television, radio, social media community with a mission to serve as a “vehicle to strengthen the flow of food and nutrition information” from the NNC, the local government units and other government agencies and the nutrition network to the general public. Cleo Christine E. Jomuad, CTU DevCom Intern