Of substance and spirit
One of the health protocols imposed last year was the prohibition of face-to-face church gatherings regardless of faith. A great collateral damage of this policy made our heart bleed. At the height of the pandemic last year, many church pastors and elders literally starve
Joint Learning Initiative (JLI) launches Compendium of Good Practices Conducting MEAL in Partnerships with International Actors and Local Faith Actors
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Includes alternative practices beyond Western, secular or Christian approaches.
[January 2021] The JLI MEAL (Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning) Hub will be launching a ground-breaking Compendium of Good Practices today. The Compendium of Good Practices on Conducting MEAL in Partnerships with International Actors and Local Faith Actors bridges the knowledge gap on how international and local faith actors practice MEAL in a diverse range of development and humanitarian contexts. It seeks to help overcome some of the tensions that can occur in international-local faith partnerships due to conflicting aims, priorities and capacities in the area of MEAL.
Published December 19, 2020, 2:23 PM
In the midst of the hunger crisis during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department of Health (DOH) partnered with International Care Ministries (ICM) to quickly deliver life-saving food relief to more than 30,000 children during the COVID-19 community quarantine.
Since July, the DOH dispatched thousands of boxes of Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) and Ready-to-Use Supplementary Food (RUSF) to ultra-poor communities in Palawan, Visayas and Mindanao.
Recipients of the RUTF and RUSF in Cebu.
Working with local health units, the DOH and ICM identified 30,337 children across 22 provinces and in 244 different barangays who were moderately or severely malnourished and in need of food aid.
Published December 18, 2020, 6:49 PM
With the changes happening in the country’s education system brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department of Education (DepEd) underscored the need to help and assist parents in understanding various learning modalities.
“The role of our parents is something we really can’t just ignore because we only implement distance learning,” said Undersecretary for Legislative Affairs, External Partnerships, and Project Management Service Tonisito Umali in Filipino.
Umali noted that children who currently home study using various learning modalities need help especially from their parents since the teachers cannot help them physically.
To help parents adjust to the new normal in education, DepEd tapped the International Care Ministries (ICM) to assist parents of learners especially in Kindergarten on better understanding the modules provided by the schools.