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==[[Southern Leyte News]]==
==[[Southern Leyte News]]==
'''Nutrition plan'''
'''NFA pushes for i-Rice consumption in Southern Leyte'''
*Source: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/135927/power-of-10-lgus-fosters-health-justice-inclusiveness
*Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=1&t=1&id=74294
*12:26 am | Sunday, January 29th, 2012
*Monday, January 30, 2012
:by  Tarra Quismundo
:by  PIA Press Release
Philippine Daily Inquirer




The local government of Limasawa, a poor Southern Leyte municipality but enshrined in Philippine history books as the site of the first Catholic Mass, implemented an “innovative nutrition plan” to reduce malnutrition, which often kept children away from school.
MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Jan 30 (PIA) -- The National Food Authority – Southern Leyte Office is encouraging every concerned official throughout Southern Leyte province to support government programs, particularly the iron-fortified rice, known as the “i-Rice”.
Between 2004 and 2009, malnutrition rates dropped from 8.8 to 2.61 percent among preschoolers and from 6 to 2.17 percent among grade schoolers.
NFA information officer Elisa E. Almacin in her report disclosed that the agency’s ultimate goal in the “i-Rice” advocacy is to squarely face the problem of micronutrient malnutrition of the populace
In Mindanao, Sarangani province launched the Justice Enhancement and Empowered Program (JEEP), deploying a mobile court to its municipalities to speed up the resolution of cases involving poor litigants.
She revealed that micronutrient malnutrition is, “one of the country’s utmost problems because of lack of micronutrients which include iron, iodine, and vitamin A.”
Since its launch six years ago, the program has trimmed the number of detainees at the local jail from 600 to 286.
In response to the study which put the Philippines as one of the countries that suffer from nutritional disorder, NFA is emphasizing the importance of “i-rice” to help the country fight this battle towards good nutrition and a well balance diet, Almacin disclosed to PIA-Maasin.
The town of Upi in Maguindanao started an information technology (IT) project that has been a model for neighboring municipalities.  Established in 2004, the Community e-Center (CeC) project “remains the only fully operational center” in Maguindanao providing IT and even broadcast capability to locals, Galing Pook said.
It was learned that the nationwide launching of i-Rice was held last March 2011. It aims to promote the NFA’s program that supports the fortification of products based on Republic Act 8976 or the Philippine Food Fortification Act of 2000
Almacin said that the food department’s main concern is rice, which is the main staple of the country, “we highly advocate the i-Rice program” for your support as an outward extension to the people, referring to the different agencies concerned.
“Health is wealth, let the i-Rice program be part of the daily dietary intake of our people,” she said while hoping that the agencies concerned will be part in disseminating this information drive for the welfare of each one towards a journey for a healthy people in a healthy country,” Almacinbared. (PIA-8/Southern Leyte)


==Photo Gallery of Southern Leyte, Philippines==
==Photo Gallery of Southern Leyte, Philippines==
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