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BOHOL earns her third accolade in a row by grabbing the Consistent Regional Outstanding Winner in Nutrition (CROWN) this year, reports Governor Erico Aumentado Friday.


Bohol took the CROWN since 2006 and this year was a near sweep for Bohol, Gov. Aumenatdo commented over his weekly radio program aired live.

If not for Lapulapu City and its P28M nutrition program funds winning in the city category, Bohol could have swept it all, the governor who is enjoying his last term said.

Also winning in this year’s regional nutri-competition is Tubigon town for the second year in a row for municipal categories.

Winning too is Boholana Barangay Nutrition Scholar Pergentina Anod of Cagawasan Inabanga and Provincial Nutrition Coordinator Juliet Manliguez of the Bohol Provincial Health Office by besting other Central Visayan coordinators.

Elated to reveal how Bohol scored in this year’s regional fete, Aumentado, who personally received the award from the National Nutrition Council in a Cebu ceremony, said the council considered local efforts to blot out hunger to part with the award.

He said the council took the Rice Accelerated Emergency Response (Racer), the backyard gardening program advanced by the Provincial Legislative Council through Vice Governor Julius Caesar Herrera, the supplemnetal feeding program and the montly feeding activities for poor children at CIVAC venues as indicative of the efforts to blot out hunger and pump in nutrition for the entire province.

As this came, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo also issued Executive Order No. 825 creating the Local Anti-Hunger Task Force.

Bohol local officials laos hope to create, by virtue of the Presidentail directive, its own anti-hunger task force to advance its interests in immediate hunger mitigation.

Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita said the President created the order with her commitment to eradicate all forms of deprivation, including that relates to hunger, by pursuing the objectives of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

The latest quarterly survey on hunger conducted by Social Weather Stations (SWS) showed that hunger incidence in the country declined dramatically from 23.7 percent (4.3 million families) in the fourth quarter of 2008 to 15.5 percent (2.9 million families out of 86 million Filipino population).

He said the Accelerated Hunger Mitigation Program (AHMP) implemented by the Arroyo government addresses hunger both on the aspect of supply, or the unavailability or insufficiency of food to eat, and on the aspect of demand, or the lack of money to buy food.

The AHMP is implemented by national government agencies based on the hunger-mitigation program framework, in cooperation with local government units.


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