by Fredmoore Cavan, PIA4A November 19, 2021 The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) CALABARZON. ( Photo from DOST- CALABARZON) CALA...
November 19, 2021
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| The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) CALABARZON. (Photo from DOST- CALABARZON) |
CALAMBA CITY, Laguna — The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) CALABARZON now seeks to intensify the school-based feeding program of the Department of Education in Quezon towns through the provision of enhanced nutribun and rice-mongo crunchies to students.
The DOST-CALABARZON said it has partnered with the education department in the region to address malnutrition through providing the ready-to-eat breads formulated by the DOST’s Food and Nutrition Research Institute.
Some 3,000 students from Pictol Elementary School in Pitogo and Unisan Elementary School in Unisan are set to receive the nutritious and healthy food items.
More than 50,000 packs of the enhanced nutribun and another 50,000 packs of rice-mongo crunchies will be given to the student beneficiaries, according to DOST-CALABARZON. The first batches of the ready-to-eat breads were turned over to DepEd Quezon on October 25.
In a press statement, the DOST-CALABARZON added both towns are also beneficiaries of their Community Empowerment thru Science and Technology or CREST program and also included in the priority areas of the Inter-Agency Task Torce on Zero Hunger.
Licensed and training technology adopters in Quezon will be supplying the enhanced nutribun. These include the Pecto’s Bakery in Lucban, Mauban Training for Livelihood and Development Training Center in Mauban, and the Four K Kakao Farm in Gumaca.
The rice-mongo crunchies meanwhile, will be supplied by the Samahan ng mga Inang Gabay at Lakas ng Aktibong Komunidad (SIGLA) of the E. Zobel Foundation, Inc., which is a GIA-community based project beneficiary in Batangas. — FC, PIA4A (with reports from DOST-CALABARZON)
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