ILOILO CITY – To prevent low birth weight and stunting, the National Nutrition Council (NNC)-6 launched another phase of the supplementing feeding program for women and children in Western Visayas. NNC-6 Regional Coordinator Reginaldo Guillen said that Tutok Kainan Supplementation Program Phases...
The Las Piñas City government conducted a feeding program for children in Barangay BF International CAA on Friday, Feb. 10 Mayor Imelda Aguilar said about 600 children were provided with nutritious “almondigas”, a noodle soup dish with meatballs and patola, pandesal, and bottled water. She...
TARLAC CITY – Around 300 Aeta children benefited from the feeding program conducted by the Armed Forces Northern Luzon for this year’s National Children’s Month. The Nolcom, through the 1st Civil Relations Group, Civil Relations Service, Armed Forces of the Philippines, in collaboration with...
Senator Sonny Angara is pushing for the expansion of school students' feeding programs to include those in secondary education. For this purpose, Angara filed a measure that would, if enacted, amend Republic Act (RA) 11037 or the Masustansyang Pagkain Para sa Batang Pilipino Act, which...
On its year four, the Mega Bigay Sustansya has been helping malnourished children across the country At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, various brands made buzz for helping those in need especially, the children who are battling with malnutrition, one of them is the proudly local sardines...
Amid the concerns raised regarding the milk component of its School-Based Feeding Program (SBFP), the Department of Education (DepEd) stressed the need to “effectively balance” achieving the goals of the program and its beneficiaries. (Photo from DepEd) In a letter, the Philippine Chamber of...
The Department of Education (DepEd) maintained that local farmers “have been and will always be prioritized” when determining milk supply to be used in its School-Based Feeding Program (SBFP). DepEd / MANILA BULLETIN DepEd said this as part of its response to the concerns raised by the...
Is Nadine Lustre even aware that former boyfriend James Reid already left the country? If ever, she's not losing sleep over it. She is busy after all. Just recently, she was seen with rumored boyfriend Christophe Bariou conducting a feeding program in Siargao. Photos of them attending to typhoon...
The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) Marikina Chapter distributed more than 60 hot meals to residents of Barangay Tañong in Marikina City on Saturday afternoon, Feb. 12. Marikina City Councilor and PRC Marikina Chapter Chairman Serafin “Bojie” Bernardino led the community feeding program at the...
The Valenzuela City government on Monday, Feb. 7, started the distribution of nutribun packs, milk and hygiene kits to the 11,108 undernourished and severely undernourished students in the city as part of its school-based feeding program (SBFP). A total of 3,816 Kindergarten to Grade 6 students...
More than 470 undernourished children from the municipalities of Laurel and Talisay, Batangas have benefitted from the four-month long Enhanced Nutribun (e-Nutribun) Feeding Program implemented by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST)-Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, Quezon)...
The Department of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) Supplementary Feeding Program (SFP) has so far served more than one million children. (DSWD/MANILA BULLETIN FILE) The DSWD said it in the 11th cycle of the SFP implementation. “As of October 31, more than one million children or 56...
