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Saturday, November 12, 2005
20 schools to get bakeries
Sixty thousand pupils, as well as thousands of children in 20 Cebu City north district barangays, will soon have access to vitamin-fortified bread that will help reduce malnutrition cases.
Through Rep. Raul del Mar’s priority development assistance fund (PDAF), 20 elementary schools will be given bakeries so they can implement the Nutri-Pan sa Eskwelahan Project.
The iron and vitamin A-fortified bread will be sold to students and barangay residents at P1 each.
Del Mar’s P3-million assistance will be given to 20 elementary schools in his district, leaving only 13 schools without their own bakery.
Del Mar (Cebu City, north) said, though, that he will give additional funding of at least P1 million to implement the project in the 13 schools.
Brainchild
The “nutri-pan” concept is the brainchild of former Cebu City mayor Florentino Solon, now the president and executive director of the Nutrition Center of the Philippines.
Solon welcomed del Mar’s assistance, saying it will help reduce malnutrition cases among the elementary pupils and the community as well.
Del Mar said the school and parents should take the lead in addressing the problem on malnutrition to improve the performance of the students.
“The school facilities and the best teachers will all be for nothing if our students are malnourished and can’t absorb their lessons in school,” del Mar said during the signing of the memorandum of agreement with the representatives of the 20 school-beneficiaries yesterday.
The parent-teachers associations of the different schools were tasked to manage the bakeries and the distribution of the bread to the students and the community.
“We should find a way that the school, no matter how small, can manage the bakery so they will really own it for them to cater to their own children, the homes of these children and the rest of the community,” said Dr. Solon. (LCR)
(November 12, 2005 issue)
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