By Sunday Post
The Municipal Nutrition Council here and the regional office of the National Dairy Authority (NDA) in Central Visayas launched the “
Lubos Uyamot, Naningkamot Alang sa Batang Tubignon†(LUNA), a six-month milk supplementation feeding program Wednesday last week at the Cultural Center and Sports Complex here.
At least 168 undernourished children benefited from the program.
In support, the children’s parents, barangay nutrition scholars, barangay captains of 34 barangays of this town, MNC members and the Rural Health Unit attended the activity.
MNC and NDA-7 entered into a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) for the counterparting of P126,000 each for the milk supplementation feeding program in the barangay level which will run for six months or 120 days starting February 11.
NDA-7 General Manager Grace Cenas said that aside from supplying milk to the cities in Cebu province, “their goal is also to extend services to other provinces in Region VII wherein the Municipality of Tubigon in the province of Bohol was given the opportunity for milk supplementation feedingâ€.
She also want to position NDA-7 to have access to the milking cows in some barangays in Tubigon to process milk that will be used to feed undernourished children.
Mayor Luna Piezas, on the other hand, assured the undernourished children of the barangays concerned to continue supporting the program, as it is very significant to the undernourished children and their families and to the less fortunate in the community.
Ensuring that the municipality would achieve good nutrition is not a simple act of charity, but an investment for development and share equitably its blessings.
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