Special programs for school children
WE HAVE in our midst several millions of undernourished, stunted children, school children, that is.
This, in spite of millions of pesos in funds earmarked for their nutrition.
Now, in this ambitious school-feeding program euphemistically called Supplemental Feeding Program, two government departments, namely: Department of Education and
Department of Social Welfare and Development , are tasked to implement this ambitious yet sensible program.
This time, the government is embarking on a house-to-house distribution of nutritious meals for undernourished school children at the start of classes by October 5.
According to Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles, the meals include iron-fortified rice, enhanced nutrition, instant laing and pinakbet aimed to improve the school children's health and prevent stunting. This house-to-house distribution system is resorted to because faceto-face classes are not yet allowed.
This program is laudable but skeptics observe that with government's inefficient system, it could go the way the SAP suffered hitches and fumbles with barangay officials getting a big chunk of the funds. Ha ha.
With the Supplemental Feeding Program, many observers suggest close monitoring of the distribution
of the meals, avoiding their monetization, or turning into cash out of the voluminous meals, di ba?
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of Education’s Division of Pampanga and technical staffers supervised by the provincial government’s Public Information Office (PIO).
“This partnership of the provincial government and DepEd including Parents Teachers Associations (PTA) is for our youth,” Torres said.
The initial episodes aired on CLTV 36 starting Oct. 5 when the school year 2020-2021 opened. The episodes can also be viewed on YouTube.
Super-K Teleskwela provides students with televised modules patterned after Pampanga’s social and cultural background to easily facilitate learning among Grades 3 to 12 students, explained Celia Lacanlale, DepEd Pampanga Curriculum Implementation Division (CID) chief.
“What we produced is different from what is produced by the central office for [ TV station] IBC 13. In Super-K Teleskwela, we made sure that the learning materials are contextualized in Pampanga so that the students can easily relate with,” Lacanlale said.
Aside from funding the equipment, production costs and airtime of Super K-Teleskwela, the provincial government also shouldered the purchase of 74 risograph machines for the printing of modules.