Maasin City is the second Nutrition Honor Awardee (NHA) in Eastern Visayas. The Nutrition Honor Award is the highest and most prestigious nutrition award conferred to a local government unit that has increasingly improved further its outstanding performance and held the record in the region for six (6) consecutive years.

In the case of Maasin City, they did it in 12 consecutive years. On the 6th year of the first, the did not make it as they fall short of the percentage points. The city did not dampen their spirit but instead work hard and strategize more effectively to really make it in the second round. True enough, after those 12 years of hurdle they finally make it in the second round.

In the case of Maasin City, they see to it that in their name it has an in for Nutrition. The mayor of the city has its acronym and battle cry “NIKKO ON THE WHEELS”.

The second N on the acronym is Nutrition. Mayor Nikko, as he is fondly called, started as Barangay Captain in one of the urban barangay of the city. As Barangay Captain, nutrition programs is one of his top priority.

In fact, his barangay has the lowest malnutrition rate in the city. His support to his Barangay Nutrition Scholar and to the entire was Barangay Nutrition Committee is laudable. The BNS during his stewardship as Barangay Captain made her as the Regional Outstanding Barangay Nutrition Scholar and is now working as permanent employee of the LGU.

Mayor Nikko continued his support to nutrition when he became the mayor of the city. The city maintained his status as the top city in the entire Eastern Visayas to have the lowest malnutrition. The city also attributed to contribute the lowest malnutrition rate in the province of Southern Leyte.

With Mayor Nikko’s battle cry, nutrition is still on top of his priority agenda. #RNPC-CPD