Her 50-year old mom Aileen Miranda shares that Cheska should have been in second grade now. When I first saw Cheska, a first grader with a fragile frame, I couldn’t imagine how she manages to walk to school for an hour every day. The young girl’s family lives in a gillage, a colloquial term for “gilid” (side) and an upscale village where informal settlers thrive on its outskirts. Many children are hungry and are sickly, hence they cannot perform normally at home and in school.Įvery day, seven-year old Cheska Miranda together with her mother walks for an hour through the busy highways of Cagayan de Oro City to get to City Central School. The Nutrition Component shall provide adequate food with complete nutrients to the children. To assist indigent children in their physical, mental and spiritual development that will allow them to be at par with their age group.įor the many underprivileged Filipino children, food isn’t a basic right but a luxury that their families can’t afford. To organize a new program, helping these children go up further and be part of the mainstream, where they are no longer a liability to the community. To formulate recommendations to improve the dietary management of moderate malnutrition.
To provide an estimate of the nutritional requirements of children with moderate malnutrition, examining wasted and stunted children separately. To improve the nutritional health of the student To stimulate regular attendance at schools and also to introduce nutrition education. Basically, it’s a best preparation to pre-school students on public school so they will encourage to eat healthy and their health are to be monitored weekly if there are any progress and development. We can start a program that could help the children on our society on this dillema.įeeding program is the most outreached solution we could offer to our society. With the help of every foundation, organizations, individual and our government. There are about 6 million malnourished children on the Philippines. That affects our children and their growth.
Almost every Filipino are suffering hunger and are starving to death. One common problem in our community are food. In an effort to help the youths in disadvantaged situation, we must vigorously push for more human resource development programs and leadership capability building activities.
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