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Paolo Romero
The Philippine Star

The government will continue to provide education and nutrition to schoolchildren by allocating P3.3 billion in next year’s national budget for the food-for-school programs of two agencies, Budget Secretary Rolando Andaya Jr. said Friday.

By luring children from poor families to attend classes, government hopes to “arrest school dropout rates and dropping weights of children,” Andaya said.

He said the inclusion of P2.58 billion and P766 million in the 2008 budget of the Department of Education (DepEd) and the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) for their school nutritionist is meant to defeat “illiteracy and malnutrition in one blow.”

DepEd reported that the program is succeeding as the “proportion of children with below normal nutritional classification status decreased from 20 percent last year to 17 percent this year.”

The program is on its second year of implementation.

For next year, the DepEd will be given P2.58 billion to provide breakfast to at least 1,548,954 Grade 1 pupils in 5th and 6th class municipalities.

The meal will be a mix of noodles, milk, biscuits, and other food sourced locally like rice-based meals, fruits and vegetables.

On the other hand, the P766 million that will be allocated to DSWD will be used to provide milk, eggs, coco pan de sal and vegetable noodles to 326,748 children in day care centers.

Andaya said the feeding program aims to “increase the holding power of schools” over children prone to skipping classes due to hunger and the need to work so they can augment the family income. 

The U.S. once supplied us with food supplements, wheat, yellow corn, powdered milk, etc when the U.S. military base was still hosted in the Philippines.

But because of the ego and pride of our Manila officials, they kicked out the U.S. military base.

Germany, Japan, and South Korea hosts gigantic U.S. military bases but they don't grumble about it.

Our officials in Manila always dictate what's the best for our country.

But we in Mindanao and Visayas don't have a voice.

Mike, you remind me of the bulgor, notreban and yellow corn nga ibutang sa linikit nga papel.

Quote from: Ginger on September 22, 2007, 07:03:24 AM
Mike, you remind me of the bulgor, notreban and yellow corn nga ibutang sa linikit nga papel.

My aunt is a medwife in a barangay clinic.

We had sacks upon sacks of bulgor, powdered milk.

Mo-surrender na gud ang mga tao kay gipul-an na.

Karon daghan kaayo sa among lungsod way gikaon. Kung naa pay bulgor, makatabang unta sa kuto-kuto.

Hahaha!

Oh my! The infamous bulgor! I remember my Tia Linda, who was a teacher and the school board treasurer, telling me, "C2H4, ari dire sa canteen, tabangi mi'g luto sa bulgor kay hapit na mag recess, daghan mga estudyante na mag linya!"

I don't like bulgor, C2. I prefer notreban bahala'g gi bokbuk.

Sorry mga Indays i don't really know what you are talking about......bulgor and notreban? not eaten this yet.

tita Bams, mao na ang ipang hatag nga pagkaon sa public schools. bulgor (wheat), notreban is the pan nga usahay na'ay bukbok....naa pa tong powdered milk nga ipa inom aron dili ma mal-nourished.

Thanks Ginger,

i only remember the "YELLOW CORN" long........long time ago.