The Department of Education (DepEd) highlighted significant improvements in early grade reading outcomes during its 2025 summer programs, attributing the gains to food support initiatives aligned with President Marcos’ push for stronger learning recovery and child nutrition. DepEd said the...
The Department of Education (DepEd) announced that it has expanded the Gulayan sa Paaralan Program (GPP) to 44,965 schools nationwide for School Year 2025–2026—a 50.6 percent increase from the 2022–2023 school year. This initiative aligns with President Marcos’ directive to integrate...
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has increased the budget for its Supplemental Feeding Program (SFP) to P5.182 billion for the School Year 2025–2026 to provide nutritious meals to about 1.5 million schoolchildren in public early childhood care centers nationwide. DSWD...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
