Cebu City - A pledge resembles a promise, an oath, duty, and responsibility and this is the same with the 48th Nutrition Month Pledge of National Nutrition Council Region VII. The pledge was first recited during the nutrition month celebration kick-off held at SM City Consolacion, Cebu on 01 July 2022. LGOO II and Regional Nutrition Committee (RNC) – Technical Working Group Member, Ms. Aileen Grace A. Peca of the Department of the Interior and Local Government Region VII led this year’s annual tradition of reciting the nutrition month pledge. The assignment of narrating the pledge is rotated among RNC member agencies and drawn when the team prepares the Nutrition Month celebration during its first-quarter meetings.
Every year, NNC 7 comes up with a pledge to generate commitment and support for nutrition and its efforts to improve the nutrition situation in the region. The content of the pledge is usually aligned with the focus of the celebration. The pledge will be recited by the members of the RNC, students in schools or universities, and employees of local government units during the Monday program after the flag ceremony for the whole month of July, a long-time tradition in the region every Nutrition Month. Download the NM Pledge here.
The 48th Nutrition Month Pledge of commitment 2022 centered on recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and states that
“We, representing the (Name of company/organization/agency) and citizens of the Republic of the Philippines do hereby declare our love of the country and uphold the right of every Filipino to have access to healthy and nutritious food as the country shifts towards living with the COVID-19 virus.
Together, we do solemnly swear to:
C - ontinue the implementation of NUTRITION programs, projects, and activities that address the impact of COVID-19 on nutrition to the health and nutrition situation of our respective areas:
R – Recognize that stunting and other forms of malnutrition continue to be a problem and have harmful consequences to the individual and the society and includes the high risk of infection from widespread diseases,
E – Empower policy and decision-makers to increase investment in Nutrition in Emergencies and in the management of Acute Malnutrition,
C – Call on partners and stakeholders to work to continually ensure food security and other nutrition-sensitive interventions in the community for better nutrition
O – Operationalize the implementation of evidence-based programs and projects to build back better and deliver effective and efficient nutrition interventions in times of disasters and in normal situations,
V – Vocalize the need to see the positive outcomes of securing adequate nutrition of children and women in the first 1000 days,
E – Encourage the continuity of the compliance of public health measures such as proper personal and social distancing and boosting the immune system through adopting healthy eating habits to reduce risk of morbidity and mortality from the new variants of the COVID-19 virus
R – Reorganize and make certain the functionality of local nutrition committees to undertake innovative solutions for the overall economic development, and
Y – Yield fruitful and outcomes-based results by adopting health-enhancing nutrition behaviors including consumption of sustainable healthy diets.
So help me God.”
The Central Visayas Nutrition Committee and the NNC 7 encourage everyone to recite with us the 48th Nutrition Month Pledge and invite every netizen to like, follow, and share the official Facebook page of National Nutrition Council Region VII @nncrvii for updates on the celebration of the 48th National Nutrition Month and its supporting activities in the region. // ND II James Aaron S. Perez, RND
