Have you had pink lugaw (rice porridge), pink pandesal (Filipino bread), pink puto (steamed rice cake), pink egg, and the famed Ilocos empanada in pink? You may want to drop by one of the feeding initiatives launched by presidential aspirant Vice President Leni Robredo’s volunteers in support of...
Unfazed by all the “drama” that unfolded among the administration bets, Filipinos from here and abroad celebrated presidential aspirant Vice President Leni Robredo’s candidacy through meet-ups, clean-up drives, feeding programs, and awareness campaigns. The “kakampinks,” a term that now...
The P41-billion combined feeding program budget of the Department of Education (DepED) and other government agencies should be spent buying Filipino farmers’ production as mandated in the Sagip Saka Act. During a virtual forum hosted by the Philippine Chamber of Agriculture and Food Inc. (PCAFI),...
An intervention study conducted by the Department of Science and Technology–Food and Nutrition Research Institute (DOST-FNRI) under the Forging Public-Industry Society Alliance: PISO for Healthier Schoolchildren project showed that school lunch feeding and nutrition education intervention package...
The Las Pinas City government conducted a feeding program in Barangay CAA to about 700 children who received hot meals, bread, and face masks on Nov 5. Mayor Imelda Aguilar said “Kusina ng Las Pinas, Kalinga sa bawat Las Pineros” was launched to reach out to the children in the city's barangays...
Some senators on Wednesday suggested that local government units (LGUs) should take the lead in feeding programs administered by the National Nutrition Council (NNC) and other government agencies. During the Senate finance subcommittee’s hearing on the budget of Department of Health (DOH) and its...
More than 2.5 million school children have benefited from the government's milk feeding program, the Department of Agriculture (DA) said Friday, August 13. (Photo courtesy of the DA-PCC) Jointly implemented by the Department of Education (DepEd) and DA through its National Dairy Authority (NDA) and...
The Department of Science and Technology–Food and Nutrition Research Institute (DOST-FNRI) has launched its 2021 Menu Guide Calendar, which focuses on recipes for complementary feeding of infants and young children after results of the 2019 Expanded National Nutrition Survey (ENNS) showed that...
A group of former overseas Filipino workers (OFW) have banded together to launch a feeding mission in two barangays in Pasay City. (Ariel Fernandez/ MANILA BULLETIN) Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) Board of Trustee Doc Chie Umandap, chairman of AKO OFW Inc., said the program was made...
Malacañang said humanitarian activities were allowed under the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) but said organizers must coordinate with the local government unit (LGU) of their target area to ensure adherence to minimum health standards. File photo of a community pantry in Diliman, Quezon...
The Search for Most Outstanding Implementers of School-Based Feeding Program (SBFP) for School Year (SY) 2020-2021 is on. Elementary school children wearing face masks sit in a classroom on Natuna island in Riau islands province on 4 February, 2020. (File photo MANILA BULLETIN) The Department of...
For the upcoming School Year (SY) 2021-2022, the Department of Education’s (DepEd) School-Based Feeding Program (SBFP) is expected to benefit 3.1 million learners. (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) DepEd Secretary Leonor Magtolis Briones expressed the agency’s commitment to continue implementing the...
