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Senator Grace Poe (Senate of the Philippines/MANILA BULLETIN File photo) Poe said the two agencies have almost P10 billion in their budget allocations for this year that they can use to put up “food pantries”, to serve meals to school children. She said the beneficiaries of the child feeding programs could be expanded if the DSWD, and the DepEd would learn from the success of community pantries. They could partner with local government units and non-government organizations, such as church groups, civil society and business associations, she said. “The community pantry experience shows ...

QUEZON CITY, March 12 --  The initial implementation of the milk feeding program, led by the Department of Education (DepEd) through the help of 30 assisted cooperatives of DA-Philippine Carabao Center (DA-PCC), had supplied the milk requirements of 503,955 undernourished children in 2019, which is equivalent to 26.12% of the total number of beneficiaries nationwide. Photo from DA -PCC This progressive outcome was the talking point during the visit of the members of DepEd Integrated Monitoring Team from Central Office headed by OIC Director IV of Bureau of Learners and Support Services (BLSS...

(Photo via Merlina Hernando-Malipot) “Nurturing learners is one of our priorities to help them study efficiently,” Education Secretary Leonor Briones said. “We want to give our thanks to our partners for the implementation of the school-based feeding program despite the pandemic because we know that learners still need the food and milk packs,” she added. During the Central Office’s visit to the Schools Division of Rizal and Antipolo City, DepEd-Bureau of Learner Support Service (BLSS) OIC Director Lope Santos III explained how schools and local food producers coordinate to provide ...

School-Based Feeding Program records 3.5-M beneficiaries

(JANSEN ROMERO / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) In an Aide Memoire dated Feb. 11 signed by DepEd Undersecretary Alain Pascua, it was noted that more than 3.5 million students – from Kindergarten to Grade 6 – received food and milk under the SBFP. DepEd said 3,517,807 students received nutritious food products (NFP) under the SBFP and 3,136,951 million also received milk through the SBFP’s milk component. “These numbers represent a 205.9 percent achievement for NFP and 176.69 percent for milk of the 1,775,349 [target] beneficiaries,” Pascua said. As of December 2020, P...