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Toledo City - To address the ever-growing concern of hunger and malnutrition in the COVID-19 pandemic, the Toledo City Nutrition Committee (CNC) spearheaded by its Chair Hon. Mayor Marjorie P. Perales came up with a solution to address the hunger of the city residents, especially young children coming from food insecure and nutritionally challenged barangays. The LGU has launched the NutriJoy on Wheels Feeding Program which makes use of a mobile kitchen to reach all thirty-eight (38) barangays of the city.
With an allocated budget of Php 250,000.00 and an additional Php 500,000.00 from the mayor’s special fund, NutriJoy on Wheels lives up to its name by bringing joy and ensuring that communities are well-fed, and malnutrition is prevented. The mobile kitchen delivers quality nutritious meals to Toledohanons through the efforts of professional cooks and aided by Barangay Nutrition Scholars.
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Guihulngan City - Investing on empowering mothers to prevent malnutrition in the community, the Barangay Planas in Guihulngan City have organized “MAkugihong mga Nanay sa Barangay PLAnas” (MANAPLA). Composed of mothers in the community, the organization mainly ensures that women, especially those with malnourished children or are breastfeeding are provided with the right nutrition information and given enough support as they raise their children and nurture their families.
Initially a breastfeeding support group, the organization that only aims to help address malnutrition through exclusive breastfeeding, and proper complementary feeding, it bloomed to give its members additional income to be able to access more food for their loved ones. It is with this goal that the Barangay Nutrition Committee collaborated with the Provincial Agriculture Office to further strengthen the vision and goals of the group.
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LA LIBERTAD, NEGROS ORIENTAL - Enabling communities to provide well balanced and nutritious food for their children while enticing the youth to continue their education is the core strategy of the Advancement for Rural Kids (ARK). This is a social impact organization that first started by co-investing in school lunches that got students back to school, made them healthy and became a source of income for the community since all ingredients were sourced from the residents.
Having started three years ago, ARK was able to give birth to Feed Back – a community wide vegetable exchange that invites families to farm in their backyards and contribute three (3) of their favorite vegetables in exchange for their fair share of over 20 vegetables given by their neighbors. The municipality of La Libertad in the Province of Negros Oriental has the largest number of partner communities for ARK which is a testament of the strong municipal and barangay partnership and the “tunga-tunga” spirit that fuels Wave 5 and 7 in La Libertad.
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Siaton, Negros Oriental - While the Balik Probinsya program has been implemented throughout the country, the nutrition-sensitive tweak that the Municipality of Siaton, Negros Oriental has initiated, provides a definite impact on food security in their community, especially to those who have just gone back to the province. The unplanned movement of this population has lost the affected people’s jobs and livelihood which posted a potential threat to their nutrition status and that of their families.
At the height of the pandemic, the municipality was on top in shouldering the traveling expenses of their community members who were stuck in urban centers. The local government of Siaton headed by its Local Chief Executive Hon. Cezanne Fritz H. Diaz with the Municipal Council extended their support to Siatanons who were unable to come home due to the COVID-19 crisis. The “Locally Stranded Individual-Balik Probinsya Program” offered free transportation of affected population from Cebu or Manila to Siaton,
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Cebu City - Week 39 of the Year 2022 like always is full of opportunities and challenges for the National Nutrition Council Region VII (NNC 7) to work towards its goal of reducing stunting (short for age) and other forms of malnutrition in Central Visayas. NNC 7 as the secretariat arm of the Regional Nutrition Committee has identified priority programs, projects, and activities in the region that will contribute to the achievement of the Regional Plan Action for Nutrition (RPAN) goals and help attain the Sustainable Developmental Goal (SDG) 2 - zero hunger, and SDG 3 - good health and well–being which the country committed to the international community. Through the goals identified in the RPAN, the NNC 7 Amazing Team dedicates its time and efforts day by day to work towards realizing the vision of having healthier and nutritionally-well Filipinos.
As a new workweek begins, NNC 7 has a set of events scheduled that is to be accomplished before the weekend creeps in. Listed below are what NNC 7 is set out to do for the week:
Read more: NNC 7 preps for activities for the last week of September
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BAIS CITY - While other LGUs are reeling with COVID-19 response and have difficulty in procurement of micronutrient and supplies for dietary supplementation, Bais City has already institutionalized funding for the provision of these services in the first 1000 days of life. Focusing on early detection of nutrition problems, the Bias City Nutrition Committee (CNC) has committed to prevent malnutrition specially its long-term effects such as poor mental development, weak immune system, and stunting.
In 2017, the CNC was able to pass a resolution to institutionalize a budget for the procurement of said commodities and has since helped both pregnant mothers and their children reach their caloric and nutrient needs. Resources for the nutrition program from Gender and Development fund, the Disaster Risk Reduction and Mitigation fund and other LGU fund sources were mobilized to ensure to the continued nutrition services to its populace.
Read more: Institutionalization of Micronutrient and Dietary Supplementation Program
