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Nutrition broadcast campaign gains grounds by Elsa S. Subong ILOILO CITY, Nov. 7 (PIA) – The broadcast media campaign launched by the National Nutrition Council (NNC) all over the country has been gaining grounds in making more Filipinos “nutritionally” aware.
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n the 2011 Second Quarter Survey of the Social Weather Station, it was shown that about 29 percent of household heads watch and/or listen to programs and segments about nutrition on radio and television. NNC Regional Coordinator Nona Tad-y said this is encouraging because here in the region the NNC has used radio and cable television to a great extent to disseminate messages on breastfeeding and nutrition. The SWS survey showed that the Visayas got a 23 per cent proportion of the audiences. Further, it revealed that all over the country, two out of five (41%) class ABC household heads watch and/or listen to programs or segments about nutrition,
while the other proportions are 31 per cent of class D and 20 per cent of class E. As to programs, the survey showed that 4 per cent or about 218,110 households or 1.09 million Filipinos listen and/or watch Radyo mo sa Nutrisyon; 1 per cent or 54,528 households or 272,640 Filipinos listen to Ulat Ukol sa Nutrisyon at AHMP or Accelerated Hunger Mitigation Program; 1 per cent or 272,640 Filipinos listen to Katumbas ay Biyaya drama series, and 1 per cent or 272,640 Filipinos listen to Nutriskwela Community Radio. Tad-y also said, on the whole where these programs or segments are aired/ telecast, some captive audiences have been identified by the NNC, composed of
Barangay Health Workers, Barangay Nutrition Scholars and members of the nutrition committees in the provinces. Here in Iloilo the programs are serialized in a local cable TV station and radio stations on a per schedule basis. In a related development, Tad-y also said that the latest SWS survey on hunger showed that severe hunger was down in the Visayas to 2.3 per cent from 2.7 per cent in June, below the 13-year average of 3.2 per cent for the region. She said Western Visayas is blessed for during the period, no devastating calamity hit the region, and the programs on poverty alleviation and anti-hunger of the government have benefitted the poor. (JCM/ESS/PIA-Iloilo)
Papua New Guinea delegates visit Sagay City By Carolina A. Dionela SAGAY CITY, Negros Occ. Nov. 8 (PIA) – Four delegates from the Papua New Guinea Department of Implementation and Rural Development were recently in Sagay City, Negros Occidental for a two-day visit in line with program on International Benchmarking Program III of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) in Region 6.
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agay City Mayor Leo Rafael Cueva welcomed the delegation and presented the Sagay Marine Reserve program and some of the best practices of the city, the Sagay press release said. The delegate visited the Material Recovery Facility in Brgy. Rizal AgriMasa Farm and Dairy Farm and Milk Processing Center and the Corn Mill Post Harvest Facility,at GK Punta Roma Village, they
interacted with the children and saw how they made an impact in the lives of the beneficiaries of the housing project of GK. A talk on mangroves was given by Bantay Dagat chairperson Eusebio Bantigue at the Mangrove Park and Beach Resort. Badira Vari, one of the delegates, said they learned a lot from the visit and they will be sharing these back to their country.
He also said he hopes to forge a link and partnerships especially in the management of coastal resources with Sagay Marine Reserve. The delegates were Badira Vari, assistant director, District Development Services; Stephen Rambe, asst.director, Corporate Services; Mark Ravu Vagi, financial manager; and Leonila Duque, consultant and HR administrator.*(CAD/ JCM/PIA6)
Six new secondary schools open in Antique by Pilar s. Mabaquiao SAN JOSE, Antique Nov. 3 (PIA)- The Department of Education, Division of Antique opened six more secondary schools in the province to cater to the growing number of enrolment especially in far-flung areas.
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ssistant Schools Division Superintendent Victor de Gracia said in an interview that these schools are located in areas where existing high schools are quite distant from the cluster of barangays. “The creation of these schools is a big help to poor families who wished their children would continue their studies but were discouraged due to far distance of schools from their houses,” he said. Governor Evelio B. Javier National High School in Barangay Tubudan, San Remigio and Eastern Laua-an National High School in Bario Maria, Laua-an are situated in upland barangays. These schools have their own
separate budget under the General Appropriations Act. Caluya National High School – Sibay Annex is another school located in one of the islets of the island town of Caluya where students need to travel by boat to reach mainland Caluya if not for the opening of the said annex campus. Another school that opened in Pangalcagan, Bugasong, served students in the upland towns of Laua-an and Bugasong is an annex school of Northern Bugasong National high School. In addition, DepEd recently opened Sido-San Juan National High School – Villafont Annex campus in Barangay Villafont , Sibalom while another school is set to be launched in the next school year
at Barangay Sumaray, San Remigio, Antique. With the opening of these schools, Antique now has 56 secondary schools serving more than 35,000 high school students. DepEd further disclosed the increase in enrollment of 286 high school students from 35,621 last school year to 35,907 of SY 2010-2011 apparently due to opening of more schools. De Gracia said the leadership of DepEd and the local officials are steadfast in their commitment to achieve the national thrust to provide education for all in consonance with the Millennium Development Goals. (PSM/ PIA6 Antique)