Children's Causes Update: Central Visayas: NGOs forged partnership w/ DSWD to provide hot meals & supplementary feeding

PPP forged for supplemental feeding | The Manila Bulletin Newspaper Online: "The supplemental feeding will be in a form of hot meals for malnourished children outside the government’s day care centers in identified and adopted villages of the NGO beneficiaries. More than 1,300 children will be served by the DSWD and Akap Bata-Cebu, Rotary Club of Metro Bogo, Zenith Foods Corporation, La Consolacion College in this City, Sto. Tomas College in Danao City, and La Consolacion College in Lilo-an, Cebu. Meanwhile, the DSWD will provide 20,000 kilos of Iron-fortified rice while the NGO partners will share the other requirements needed by the program. The feeding program, to run from 120 to 200 days, will be given to malnourished children ages 2-12 years old outside day care centers in the identified barangays. Others entities in the national level partnering in the program are Jollibee Foundation, Augustinian Sisters of our Lady of Consolacion, Operation Blessing Foundation, Phils., Inc., and Hapag-Asa Integrated Nutrition Program. (Phoebe Jen Indino)"

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