(Metro News) Navotas intensifies feeding program for poor children

MANILA, July 23 — The Navotas local government has intensified its feeding program for the locality’s marginalized children in line with the observance of July as nutrition month.

The city government was assisted in the endeavor by the “Samahan ng Malayang Kabataan sa Navotas” (literally translated into association of Navotas’s free thinking youths), Navotas Polytechnic College (NCP), community league and “Sangguniang Kabataan” (youth association).

Navotas Mayor Tobias “Toby” Tiangco said the groups scoured marginalized areas in the city’s 11 “barangays” (communities) to provide supplemental feeding to poor children residing there.

He said the program fed an estimated 2,000 marginalized children from two to 11 years old during its initial run early this month. The figure is expected to rise once the project goes into high gear.

The food provided in the supplemental feeding program include enriched bread buns, noodles and “lugaw” (rice porridge) enriched with iron and “malunggay” leaves.

The children were provided with Vit. A and iron. (PNA) FFC/PFN

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