TABUK CITY, Kalinga – The City Social Welfare and Development (CSWD)- is set to start the new cycle of the feeding program aimed to benefit over 2,000 children in day care centers in the city.
These children will be supplemented with food as the 15th cycle of the Supplementary Feeding Program (SFP) starts this July, in the opening of academic year 2025-2026.
For 15th cycle, P25.00 will be allocated for each child for 120 days to provide food and milk during class sessions.
About 111 CDCs and 1 SNP in the city will serve as feeding centers, while child development workers will ensure feeding to achieve the target nutritional status of monitored children.
Milk and food will be in hot meals to supplement the three-meal-a-day consumption of the child, as it hopes to address the incidence of malnutrition among preschoolers.
Beverly Alvester, a day care monitoring worker, said that parents are responsible for cooking the children’s meals.
This SFP of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) helps combat hunger by providing food to children ages 3 to 4 years old enrolled in Child Development Centers (CDC) or daycare centers and 2 to 4 years old in Supervised Neighborhood Play (SNP).
Day care monitoring workers of all municipalities in the region attended the two-day learning conversation for the 14th and 15th cycles of SFP for stakeholders organized by the DSWD-CAR. By Darwin Serion
