Project Spoon

Makiling Integrated School is a DepED managed urban Secondary Public School

located in City Of Calamba,Laguna.The school started in 1974 and caters to students

coming from nearby Barangays of the Municipality of Sto. Tomas and a few from the

City of Tanauan.Makiling Integrated School was formerly known as Makiling Barangay

High School under the supervision of the Elementary School Principal, Mr.Severino

Lalap, as Assistant Principal for Secondary School. The efforts of some teachers,

Mrs.Evelina L. Barricanosa, who recruited students in different barangays, as Tulo,

Saimsim, Maunong, Ulango, PutingLupa, Kamaligan, Real, and was able to tie up with

the Barangay Captain and the Municipality of Calamba City, headed by then the Mayor,

Salvador Delmo.

At present, there are 3374 students enrolled which are composed of Senior and

Junior High School students with 103 teachers. The school has 6 school buildings, with

a total of 38 classrooms.Parents and students are enjoying free basic secondary

education and offering Humanities and Social Sciences Strand (HUMSS), Computer

Literacy Program and Electrical Installation for the Junior and Senior High School.

Like other public schools, it has different programs which promote students’

welfare. One of those programs is the feeding program. This intends to uplift students’

nutritional status which will help them to be physically fit while studying. Recipients are

from Grade 7 students which were identified as wasted and severely wasted as

indicated by their Body Mass Index (BMI). At present, there are 50 recipients who are

being supervised by the school’s feeding coordinator. Budget comes from the 35 %

profit of the school canteen.But because of the pandemic the school canteen could not
operate so we come up to different projects to support the feeding program . They were

given complete meal with fruits and drinks. The feeding coordinator prepares the menu

that is composed of go, grow and glow foods. However, because of the big number of

students being taken care of, the allotted budget could hardly suffice the needs of the

said program so we also do solicitation to augment the needs of feeding beneficiaries.

The government has developed feeding programs to reduce hunger, to aid in

the development of children, to improve nutritional status and to promoting good health,

as well as to reduce inequities by encouraging families to send their children to school

given the incentive of being provided school feeding . The Department of Education

(DepEd) is one of the implementers in conducting school feeding programs, with hopes

of ending malnutrition among students. The focus of the current DepED School-based

Feeding Program (SBFP) is on dealing with under nutrition or malnutrition that is not

uncommon among Filipino school-age children. In 2012, for instance, the Nutrition

Status Report of DepED identified more than half a million severely wasted children

enrolled in the country’s public elementary schools . Although, the government

provided substantially more resources to DepED to feed all severely wasted during

2014 – 2015, recipients increases which affects budget allocation. The lack of standard

weighing protocols and weighing equipment was one of the problems from which most

of the budget mostly spent instead of buying foods for the children.

Likewise, the DepEd released Memorandum No. 293 in 2007 about Gulayan sa

Paaralan Program. It encourages increasing public awareness on health and nutrition,

especially among the students, teachers and parents. It also aims to help the
government solve malnutrition in the Philippines by making school gardens as main

sources of food in supplementary feeding program.

In Laguna, the Department of Agriculture (DA) upholds the DepEd“program in

line with their campaign: “Programang Agrikultura Para sa Masa” to public elementary

and secondary schools .In support of DepEd’s program, Department of Agrarian

provided each school with vegetable seeds to be distributed to various schools. The

program is advisable to the students, schools and communities for the food’s quality,

safety, and availability. Schools were tasked to plant vegetables in vacant lots and this

may serve as an alternative source of food for the school’s feeding program. Vegetable

garden can be a good source of nutritious foods for children under feeding program.

Through it, the budget needed for the program will be lessened and it ensures that

children will have fresh vegetable in their menu.

With this, this study is envisioned with the hope that Gulayan sa Paaralan HOPE

of the Community Project , PESO Project may help in meeting the nutritional needs of

the schools’ feeding program. Through it, the budget allocated for foods would be used

to purchase other equipment necessary for the program. Thus, nutritional value of foods

for wasted children will not be at stake but guaranteed of its nutritional content.

This project will provide strategic and targeted pathways for delivering nutrition

interventions to children and, indirectly, to their families and communities. The model

pictures out three circles intertwined together which describes three subjects, Project

HOPE/HOPE of the community , Project PESO and Gulayan sa paaralan and

Supplementary feeding.
 PROJECT SPOON:

PROJECT HOPE

HOPE of the
COMMUNITY

PROJECT PESO
SUPPLEMENTARY
GULAYAN SA
FEEDING
PAARALAN

Three areas are linked to each other, supplementary feeding of malnourished

students using iron-fortified rice and indigenous vegetables from school gardens using

PROJECT HOPE, PROJECT PESO/ SCHOOL GARDENING and SUPPLEMENTARY

FEEDING. Their interrelation with each other enable the children under the program

meet their nutritional needs.The PROJECT SPOON offers a way to achieve better

nutritional outcomes which is linked to good educational outcomes. It also ensures

sustainability of the gains in school nutrition program while optimizing benefits from

limited resources.