Quezon City 4th district Rep. Marvin Rillo (Rep. Rillo's office) Quezon City 4th district Rep. Marvin Rillo has highlighted Congress' allocation of P17 billion to vital school- and community-based feeding programs aimed at combating child hunger and...
Senatorial candidate Kiko Pangilinan is calling for the decentralization of government feeding programs, citing urgent reforms to prevent food waste.Senatorial candidate Francis 'Kiko' Pangilinan (Photo courtesy of Kiko Pangilinan)The former food security secretary, who is running on the platform of...
BACOLOD CITY – The provincial government has resumed its feeding program for Kanlaon Volcano evacuees in three localities in Negros Occidental.A COMMUNITY kitchen conducts a feeding program established by the provincial government for evacuees of Kanlaon Volcano in La Castellana, Negros...
Vice President Sara Duterte (Duterte's Facebook page) Members of the “Young Guns” bloc of the House of Representatives are pushing Vice President Sara Duterte to address the issues that plagued the feeding program of the Department of Education...
Gabriela Party-list Rep. Arlene Brosas (Facebook) Makabayan solon Gabriela Party-list Rep. Arlene Brosas has slammed the Department of Education (DepEd) for purportedly distributing spoiled food under its P5.69-billion School-Based Feeding Program...
The Commission on Audit (COA) has flagged the Department of Education (DepEd) over lapses in its P5.69 billion School-Based Feeding Program (SBFP) in 2023, with reports of delays and non-delivery of nutritious food products (NFPs) and pasteurized milk in several regions.Worse,...
Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada has filed a bill seeking to include undernourished high school students in the government’s school-based feeding programs. Estrada said there is a necessity to amend provisions of the law on school-based feeding program to include...
There is only 23 percent of children who have benefited from any government feeding program with many reported to need more nutrient intake, according to the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS).Citing several government data, PIDS researchers stated in their study titled "Behind the...
Malacañang has encouraged businesses to be more involved in helping the government to alleviate hunger among children in the country.In order to get the private sector's participation, the Office of the Presidential Adviser for Poverty Alleviation tied up with SM Foundation for an anti-hunger...
The Department of Education (DepEd) on Wednesday, Jan.24 kicked off the national launch of the School Mental Health Program and the School-Based Feeding Program (SBFP) for the Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 at Esteban Abada Elementary School in Quezon City.Photo from DepEdWith the theme, "Batang Matatag:...
The Department of Education (DepEd) will lead the national launch of the School Mental Health Program and kick-off of the School-Based Feeding Program for Fiscal year (FY) 2024.(DepEd / MB Visual Content Group) The launch and the kick-off will take place at the Esteban Abada Elementary School...
To help Filipino learners increase their performance in school, the Department of Education (DepEd) on Thursday, Jan. 11, said that the School-Based Feeding Program (SBFP) has been adjusted to cover the entire school year.(DepEd / MB VIsual Content Group)In a Palace briefing, DepEd Undersecretary...
