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PALO, Leyte - Nutrition officers, Ms. Analyn B. Crosa and Ms. Evelyn M. Ramos handed over 53 BNS health kits and various IEC materials to the Municipal Nutrition Action Officer (MNAO) of Calubian, Leyte, Ms. Jocelyn S. Catam-isan.
The hygiene kits include alcohol, face masks, and face shields which are very essential in protecting our Barangay Nutrition Scholars (BNSs) against the COVID-19 threat.
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Nutrition and health workers in San Ricardo, Southern Leyte has continued its outpatient therapeutic care in managing moderate and severely wasted children through is weekly ration of Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF).
This also includes routine assessment and family counselling.
In addition, the Provincial Health Services Office of Southern Leyte has conducted its second round of RUTF distribution the municipalities of Padre Burgos, Malitbog, Tomas Oppus, Libagon, Sogod, St. Bernard, Anahawan, Hinunangan and Silago in Southern Leyte.
In mid-December last year, Southern Leyte and some parts of Leyte were ravaged by Typhoon Odette. #NOII-TMDC
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With the unprecedented hike in oil prices and uncontrolled inflation of commodities including food, there is an ever-greater clamor to change to a more sustainable lifestyle. Increases in prices are often related to the demand-and-supply relationship in the economy. When the supply cannot keep up with the demand, the prices start to increase. Exhaustible and unrenewable resources are subject to the price hikes. Therefore, the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12 pushes for a sustainable consumption and production.
One of the strategies for sustainable consumption is the practice of front yard gardening. Brgy. Panoypoy from Calbayog City is leading this initiative with their "BAGGING" Project which has been running for 25 years. Residents are given soil contained in rice sacks where they can plant their choice of vegetables from petsay, tarong, repolyo, sibuyas and/or kamatis.
Read more: Sustainable Consumption: Calbayog City's Panoypoy village "Bagging" Project
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Malnutrition still holds as one of the dangerous health problems among the vulnerable population, especially among 6-59 months old children during emergencies and disasters.
As on of the recipients of the Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) commodities, the municipality welcomed the National Nutrition Council Region 8 technical team to conduct the crash course on the Philippine Integrated Management of Acute Malnutrition.
Read more: NNC conducts PIMAM crash course in St. Bernard, Southern Leyte
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HILONGOS, Leyte – The National Nutrition Council (NNC) Region 8 handed over the Barangay Nutrition Scholars’ (BNSs) cheque representing the 2021 travel allowance.
The cheque will benefit 51 BNSs of the 51 barangays of the municipality.
Hilongos, Leyte is one the municipalities in Leyte province to submit BNS proposal and release early to the BNSs. Subsequently, after its release, the MNAO submitted the required liquidation requirements and at the same time submit for the year’s BNS proposal.
Meantime, RNPC Catalino P. Dotollo, Jr together with PNFP Ms Annabel B. Limbagan, sat down with the MNAO and staff to discuss Early Childhood Care and Development in the First 1000 Days (ECCD-F1KD) fund utilization.
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Today, March 22 is World Water Day. It is an annual United Nations (UN) observance day that highlights the importance of freshwater. The day is used to advocate for the sustainable management of freshwater resources.
United Nations has been observing the World Water Day every year since 1993 to create awareness about water scarcity in the world. At this point, there are nearly 2 billion people who have to sustain life without access to safe water in the world, the UN said. The theme for this year’s World Water Day is 'Groundwater, making the invisible visible'.
The Philippine Information Agency (PIA) noted that about 40% of all water used for irrigation comes from aquifers. Especially in water-scarce countries, the provision of cheap energy for pumping groundwater for irrigated agriculture can lead to groundwater depletion and declining water quality, with potentially severe consequences for those who now depend on groundwater irrigation.
Moreover, the use of fertilizers and pesticides in agriculture is a serious threat to groundwater quality, PIA added.
