Food-for-school deliveries completed
The Food-for-School Program rice deliveries in Western Visayas is expected to be completed this week as almost all beneficiary provinces have received their allocations.
Sally Gayoma, program in-charge of the Department of Social Welfare and Development 6, said the provinces of Aklan and Iloilo have already received 100 percent of their rice allocation for day care children.
The provinces of Negros Occidental and Antique, however, have yet to submit their updated reports on the deliveries.
The Food-for-School program is a hunger mitigation program launched by the national government to benefit the 41,385 day care children in Western Visayas. Each child receives a kilo of rice in exchange for their one-day school attendance.
Gayoma said 27 municipalities in the region are covered by the program.
In Aklan, beneficiaries are from the municipalities of Libacao and Madalag.
Iloilo province received 81,382 bags equivalent to 406,910 kilograms for the beneficiary municipalities of Carles, Concepcion and San Dionisio.
This year, Iloilo has 5,813 children as beneficiaries, all enrolled in 145 day care centers of the three municipalities.
All 18 municipalities of Antique are program recipients.
Rice deliveries in these municipalities are enough to meet the rice requirements of day care children for 70 days.
In Negros Occidental, covered are the municipalities of Don Salvador Benedicto, Cauayan, Calatrava, and Moises Padilla.*PNA
