NABUNTURAN COMPOSTELA VALLEY PROVINCE, July 16- Now on it’s third wave, the Adopt-A-Child Program of the provincial government has reached out to another 23 malnourished children providing basic nutrition and health services at Barangays Nueva Visayas and Nuevo Iloco in Mawab town starting this July up to November 2012.
The presentation of the third batch was part of the launch heralding the 38th Nutrition Month celebration last July 9 at the Capitol Lobby. Right after the short program, the focal persons went to the Adopt-A-Child recipient areas in Mawab to join the barangay officials, local government unit, and parents for a vegetable planting.
Adopt-A-Child is a nutrition program started by the provincial government with its respective departments and offices adopting malnourished children identified by the Provincial Nutrition Office and the employees facilitating a 120-day food supplemental feeding.
The program also serves as an entry point of the other services and interventions that the provincial government could extend to the family and the community as a whole.
In their first and second batch experiences, the employees extended their open hearts; not only adopting the malnourished and severely underweight children but the family as a whole. They extended services like parents’ medication, house repair, giving of basically needed furniture, livelihood provision such as fishpond and sari-sari store, vegetable gardening, and other household support. They even became part of family events such as birthday celebrations of their respective adopted children.
After the successful performances of its first and second series, this initiativef Governor Arturo T. Uy as the Chairman of the Provincial Nutrition Council (PNC), has gone far in touching lives which influenced other local government units, private individuals, and organizations to reach out on the same purpose.
Showcasing the program as one of the best practices of the provincial government in the locality, some local government units replicated it and the SEA-K (Self-Employment Assistance-Kaunlaran) organization in the province. (grace almedilla, ids-comval)
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