DSWD expects NFA to deliver rice for Food-for-School program
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Regional Office 6 expects the National Food Authority (NFA) to deliver the rice needed for the Food-for-School program anytime as the budgetary allocation has already been transferred to the agency.
DSWD program in-charge Sally Gayoma said that the NFA regional office here has already received P57 million budget last week.
With this, she said NFA must already be preparing the delivery of rice to the 27 municipality-recipients of the program intended to mitigate hunger among day care children.
The recipients include 18 towns of Antique, two towns in Aklan, three in Iloilo, and four towns in Negros Occidental, where there are 41,385 day care children enrolled and identified as beneficiaries.
The program will provide one-kilo of rice for every school attendance of the day care pupil for 70 days.
Antique Provincial Social Welfare and Development Officer Lazaro G. Petinglay said that this program, which is now on its third year of implementation, has greatly encouraged parents to send their children to the day care centers because of the rice allowance that they get.
It also has improved the nutritional status of children. (PNA)
