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==Healthy, yummy meals for Laoag day care kids== | |||
*Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=1&t=1&id=54351&y=2011&mo=09 | |||
*By: Carlo P. Canares | |||
*''September 15, 2011'' | |||
LAOAG CITY- More than 2,000 pupils from the 89 day care centers in Laoag City will soon be served with super nutritious yet yummy meals from the Department of Social Welfare and Development. | |||
According to City Social Welfare and Development Officer Aurora Corpuz, this is through the Healthy Start Supplementary Feeding Program in Day Care Center which is the agency’s contribution to the realization of the Early Childhood Care and Development and the Millenium Development Goal of combating malnutrition. | |||
“The Feeding Program aims to improve the nutritional status of the pupils to make them more healthy, active and perform better in school,” Corpuz said. | |||
The food supplementation will be in the form of hot, nutritious and delicious meals to be served during break time in the morning and afternoon sessions for five days a week. This will continue for six months. | |||
Samples of the meals include squash-sitaw guisado with ground pork, chicken noodles with eggs, fresh vegetables with lumpia, sweet corn, fish bola-bola, misua with egg, adobong kangkong with boiled eggs, among others. | |||
The menu was prepared by nutritionists to suit the nutritional and palate requirements of the 3-4 year old kids. | |||
Corpuz explained day care parents will manage the feeding program as they will do the preparation, cooking and feeding from the funds provided by the agency. “This is in consonance with the thrust of the Aquino administration to strengthen and maximize Public-Private Partnership,” she said, “in developing and implementing measures to abate the problem of malnutrition.“ | |||
This is the first time day care center pupils in Laoag City will benefit from this program after the DSWD has widen its coverage to ensure the full development of young children. The children will be weighed at the start of the program, and monthly thereafter to determine if there is an improvement in the child’s nutritional status. | |||
The program will begin on September 19, 2011. | |||
==Tagalog news: Mga balik-mag-aaral, patuloy ang pagdagsa sa Ilocos Norte== | ==Tagalog news: Mga balik-mag-aaral, patuloy ang pagdagsa sa Ilocos Norte== | ||
*Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=7&r=r01&id=54066 | *Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=7&r=r01&id=54066 | ||