Republic of the Philippines

Province of Bulacan
Municipality of Hagonoy
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OFFICE OF THE MUNICIPAL NUTRITION OFFICER

NARRATIVE REPORT - MNAP 2018

INTRODUCTION

Nutrition is one of the most critical dimensions of child development, physically and mentally. In spite of this fact, developing
countries throughout the world, have found child malnutrition a big problem. This is because nutrition is a dimension of human
development which is affected by so many other factors like health, education, agriculture, climate, environment, social welfare and
trade.

Many institutions and individuals contributed to the successful conduct of this planning, although in the final analysis, we were able to
come up of with one Municipal Nutrition Action Plan. This plan defines the place of the child’s nutritional status in line with human
development strategy, that is the community oriented services. This plan will provide simple and adaptable ways which will bring out
positive nutrition effects on families of malnourished children and the community as a whole. Supplemental feeding, nutrition education,
medical intervention whether preventive, curative or rehabilitative, agricultural measures and well organized population are all tailored
for a very reasonable and convenient implementing policies for nutrition solution according to the needs of the people.

The plan itself is a guide to all nutrition implementers for uplifting the nutritional status of the individual in particular and the
populace in general. This plan came to reality through the efforts of all participating agencies and non-government organizations with
community service in their primary line of services.

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I. SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS:

A . Municipal Profile
Hagonoy is a first class coastal municipality situated at the southwestern portion of the province of Bulacan. It is
bounded by the municipality of Calumpit on the north, municipality of Paombong on the east, municipality of Masantol,
Pampanga on the west and Manila Bay on the south. The municipality is about an hour drive from Metro Manila and
approximately 52 kilometers via North Luzon Expressway.

Hagonoy derived its name from a medicinal plant called “Hagonoy” that used to be abundant on its river banks. The original
populace used its leaves as their herbal remedy of choice for common illnesses.

Major industries in Hagonoy are aquaculture, flowers/ornamental plants, furniture, garments, gifts/houseware/decors and
metal crafts. Major products include prawns, milkfish, red crabs, other fishes and crustaceans, garments and apparel, toys and
giftwares.

The town was made popular by 2 significant figures: National Shrine of St. Anne and the late Gat Blas F. Ople. The former
is a century-old catholic church built by Augustinian friars and the only church in the country where the relics of Saint Anne and
Saint Joaquin, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary, are venerated. While the latter is a famous journalist and politician who held
several high-ranking positions in the executive and legislative branches of the Philippine government including Senate President,
Secretary of Foreign Affairs, and Secretary of Labor.

B. Topography:

The town is a marshland of its elevation, only a couple of feet above sea level. It has the lowest level among 24
municipalities of Bulacan. At the southern part of the town, the elevation is even lower, that, it is underwater throughout the year.
This condition, however, makes the place suited for the fishpond industry. Because of its geographical location, Hagonoy serves as
catch basin for the province of Pampanga, Tarlac and Nueva Ecija. This makes Hagonoy a flood prone area , once or even twice
every year.
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C. Climate and Rainfall:

Hagonoy has 2 types of climate-Rainy and Dry Season. The Rainy Season starts from the month of June to October and
the Dry Season from November to May. It is also prone to high tide during the months of June till October. It is also the target or
site of typhoons.

D. Land Use/Resources:

It has a total land area of 103.1 square kilometers or the equivalent of 10,310 hectares. About 2.5% of which is
agricultural, 29% are residential and commercial and 68.5% is utilized for fish culture or fishponds . It is a first class municipality with
a total population 113,990 composing of twenty six (26) barangays, with two (2) of which are coastal which can only be reached by
motor boat for 35-45 minutes ride.

Hagonoy is considered as a fishing community with species like milkfish, tilapia, shrimps, crabs, prawns, mussels, oysters
and others being raised. Four punduhan (fish landing site) for the fish and shrimp harvest are located in Poblacion, Sto. Rosario, San
Sebastian and Sto. Nino. Fishery products are traded to neighboring towns , bulk harvest are supplied to Metro Manila markets ,food
chains, hotels and restaurants , some are exported to Japan and Taiwan. The northern part of Hagonoy is devoted to farming with 258
hectares planted to palay and 70 hectares planted to corn, and other hi-value commercial crops such as fruits and vegetables.

E. Human Resources and Population:

Hagonoy is considered both Rural and Urban Community. It has a population of 113,990 based on the result of 2017 RCBMS
with an breakdown of 57,270 Male and 56,720 Female. Work force is 75,233, Senior Citizen is 10,593 and dependents are
38,757 . Household for the current year is 27,184 . Since it is mostly a fishing and farming area, most of the families monthly income is
short for the average monthly expenses for a family with 4 members.

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F. Support Services/ Families:

Fa. Educational Services- Hagonoy has two (2) Districts Schools-East and West with 29 complete Public Elementary Schools. It
has also four (4) barangays High Schools and three (3) Private High Schools and one (1) Vocational School. Nine (9) Elementary Private
Schools serving the middle to upper class type of the population . There are 26 Day Care centers with 1 detailed Child Development
Teacher in each barangay.

Fb. Health Facilities and Data- All 26 barangays has its own rural health units with one detailed midwife. 194 Barangay Health
Workers were also organized to help render basic services to all. There are (5) Rural Health Units based in Sto. Nino, Sto. Rosario, San
Nicolas,San Juan and RHU-V will be opened soon in Barangay Iba. A Public Health Nurse, a rural Physician, Rural Sanitary Inspector
and Midwife are based in this RHU’s. A Municipal Dentist complete with staff and equipment and a laboratory for the Medical
Technologist is based at Aldaba Health Center (RHU I), one dentist is detailed at RHU-IV – Sto. Rosario , there are also 4 Physical
Therapy Clinics serving the population. A new facility constructed named “Bahay Pagbabago” is a home for drug dependents aiming
for their transformation. They are given free seminar/trainings for livelihood projects as well serious of lectures for moral and social
upliftment . They were also trained on food production thereby giving opportunities for good health and nutrition.

10 LEADING CAUSES OF MORBIDITY

1. HCVD 5,808 6. Animal Bite 720

2. ARI (PNEUMONIA) 5,723 7. Urinary Tract Infection 679
3. Dental Carries 5,149 8. Tubercolosis 556
4. Pulpitis 4,644 9. Acute Gastro Enteritis 483
5. Diabetis Mellitus 2,740 10. Dermatitis 421

10 LEADING CAUSES OF MORTALITY

1. HCVD 175 6. Community Acquired Pneumonia 45
2. Cancer, All Forms 93 7. Multiple Organ Failure 38
3. Ischemic Heart Disease 66 8. Diabetis Mellitus 34
4. Myocardial Infarction 63 9. Chronic Heart Failure 38

5. Pneumonia 52 10. Hanging 16

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 Fc. Transportation and Communication Facilities- All roads in Hagonoy are cemented with two (2) lanes which makes them
accessible to all types of transportation. Two (2) island barangays-Pugad and Tibaguin can be reached by motorized bancas within 45
minutes to 1 hour. Two (2) Bus Companies (BaliuagTransit and First North Luzon Transit (Golden Bee) have their daily routes to
Manila/Quezon City-Hagonoy and Vice-versa. Other public utility vehicles like jeepneys have routes to Malolos and Calumpit and
tricycle to any part of Hagonoy.

The major sources of communication are the landlines by PLDT and cellular telephones by Sun Cellular, (2) Globe & (2) Smart
Telecommunications. Almost all residents have television and radio in their homes. One T.V. Cable (Sky Cable) serves the population
too.

Fd. Water and Sanitation Facilities-Potable water supply are made accessible to the whole municipality’s population through
Hagonoy Water District. HWD has 34 water pumping stations located in different barangays namely , Abulalas, Carillo, Iba, Iba-Ibayo,
Mercado, Palapat, Pugad, Sagrada Familia, San Agustin (2), San Isidro, San Jose, San Juan (3), San Miguel (2), San Nicolas (2), San
Pablo, San Pascual, San Pedro, San Sebastian (2), Sta. Cruz, Sta. Elena, Sta. Monica, Sto. Nino/Poblacion (3), Sto. Rosario, San Roque,
Tampok (2) and Tibaguin.

Fe. Financial Institution- There are presently 6 commercial banks which extend services for the savings and time deposit to the
general public. Five (5) ATM’s for BDO, MayBank, Metro bank and Mercury Drugstore are operational . Land Bank ATM is now open
in front of the municipal building catering the banking needs of employees and other clients. Several cooperatives are also extending
financial services for the farmers and others. To name a few- San Sebastian Multipurpose Cooperative, San Miguel MPC, Sta. Ana MPC,
Kapatiran ng Magsasaka Cooperative, 3K MPCI , Malolos, and Caniogan cooperatives . There are existing remittance centers such as
LBC, Cebuana Lhuillier, Villarica Pawnshop and Money Changer, Palawan Express Padala and other pawnshops.

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 Fg. Power and Energy Sources- Electrical Power is managed by MERALCO for 24 hours round the clock.

Fh. Agricultural Facilities- The municipality has a total agricultural land area of 258 hectares . Of the total land area, only 2.5% are
considered prime agricultural land which is situated mostly in the northern part. Two barangays have two palay cropping per year while
the others plant palay as a main crop and vegetables as secondary crop.

With regards to agricultural facilities, 44 fishing bancas were awarded to fisherfolks organization, 6 Units Marine Engine, 6
units Elevated Solar Dryer , 4 units Fish Vending Equipment . For the year 2018, 2 units of knapsack sprayer were given to two farmers
of Barangay Abulalas, 1 unit power sprayer and one unit water pump given to two famers of Iba Ibayo. There were also 7 units of
shallow tube well awarded to 7 farmers of Iba, Iba-Ibayo , Palapat and Abulalas.

The BLAS F. OPLE Irrigation System in barangay Iba-Ibayo has been constructed and is now operational to irrigate the prime
agricultural areas (258 has.) in the municipality. With the implementation of BUB-Projects, a total of 190 bags of certified seeds and 150
bags of fertilizer were given to rice farmers for the year 2018.

Fi. Market and Business Establishments- The New Hagonoy Public Market is the center of all commodity exchange. It was
completed and opened on February 13, 2017. It is a two storey market with a wide array of merchandise for public patronage. We also
have sixty seven (67) Consignacions for Fish/Prawn/Crab and other marine products which are located in Barangays Sto. Nino, San
Sebastian, San Nicolas, San Pascual and Sto. Rosario . Barangays San Agustin, Sto. Rosario, Iba ,Mercado and San Juan has its own
Talipapa serving adjacent barangays every day. The big establishments such as Puregold, Super Eight, Jollibee Store, Puso Mall,
Mercury Drug Store Corporation, Generika, the Generics Pharmacy , Niño Mall, Yahoo Store , Felimon Mall , new fast food outlets like
Tapa King and two 7 Eleven stores are operational in the new public market and in the town proper for the consumers to enjoy and for
the continuous economic development of the municipality .

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II. NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT

Every year, weighing of all pre-school children from 0-5 years of age is being conducted by the Municipal Nutrition Office
thru their Lingkod Lingap sa Nayon (LLN) and Mother Leaders (ML) with the help of the Rural Health Midwife (RHM) and the
Barangay Health Workers (BHW) Using Salter weighing scale, operation timbang is being conducted from January to March. This year
we used the new eOPT Plus program in encoding the data. (Weight , Height and Length) Computation of age in months and nutritional
status is being done by LLN with supervision of the nutrition staff and the OIC- Nutrition Officer. For this year, the WHO child
growth standard was used as guide in determining the nutritional status of pre-schoolers, normal, severely underweight, underweight
and overweight were the nutritional levels reflected in the final eOPT results .Validation by the health and nutrition offices were
conducted during the months of April and May.

From the eOPT-Plus results, Hagonoy has a prevalence rate of 2.3 % (for severe and underweight) which is higher in
comparison with the prevalence rate in the Provincial level which is 1.11 % in 2018 . Our historical OPT data from the year 2015 to
2018 , showed a slight upward trend in malnutrition rate from 2.2% in the year 2015 to 2.3 % in 2018 . We believe that other
environmental factors brought about by climate change as manifested in the constant rise of sea water level or high tide affected good
nutrition programs. Through the years, it gave a significant effect on the health status of individuals since food production and
employment opportunities are adversely affected in most barangays. Also, poor home environmental conditions can serve as habitat
for bacteria and other disease carrying organisms which may cause some illnesses among children. Malnutrition will not be a big
problem if we can make necessary preparations in the implementation of various nutrition programs. ( See Annex I –eOPT Results)

After the eOPT and our validation, we found out that protein energy malnutrition (PEM), Vit.A and Iron deficiency strongly
manifest malnutrition problems. Malnutrition is prevalent in coastal and semi-rural barangay like Abulalas, Sto. Rosario, Mercado, San
Sebastian, San Agustin and San Miguel. (See Annex II ranking of barangays according to prevalence rate).
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 Malnutrition is concentrated in ages 36 months and 71 months (3 &6 years old). Most malnourished children are in thickly
populated areas of Abulalas ( 45 ), Sto. Rosario (34), Mercado (31), San Sebastian (28), and San Agustin (22). We have a total of 30
severely underweight, 338 - underweight and 224 overweight children. The severely underweight and overweight children fall
mostly on the age group of 12-59 months . Based on the data we gathered from Rural Health Units, as for morbidity and mortality it
showed that malnutrition is not even in the first 10 problems in our municipality.

Most of the severe and underweight children are in barangays Abulalas,Sto. Rosario,Mercado, San Sebastian , San Agustin and
San Miguel. These barangays are heavily populated with less employment opportunities,fishing activities are main source of income.
Based on the survey made after our home visits to these severely underweight twenty one ( 30) children, we found out that these
children belong to families with poor sanitation and families of low educational background, low income earners and families believing
in food fallacies. These areas are prone to flooding or high tide many times a year and limited area for food production. Employment
and fishing are the main sources of income of these identified barangays.

Freshly catch fish and other marine products here are brought, sold and transported to different parts of Bulacan and Metro Manila
area . The catch are not mainly for family consumption but sources of income as they are sold to neighboring towns and some parts of
Metro Manila. (see causal model Annex III, Spot Map Annex IV)

The 1st three (3) barangays considered as the Nutritionally Depressed Barangays after the 7 indicators namely Pre-school (PS) and
School Children(SC), number of below normal children, average households number, source of drinking water, waste or garbage disposal
and proportion of households with sanitary toilets are barangays Pugad, San Nicolas and Tampok . Pugad is an island barangay
located at the mouth of Manila Bay , it’s a fishing community and commonly affected by deep high tide and submerged in sea water
during rainy season , Tampok is a semi rural barangay and households near riverbanks are usually affected with high-tide and
backyard home gardens are submerged in salty water causing plants to wither and die . Construction workers/tricycle drivers are most
common occupation of poor families. San Nicolas is also a semi-coastal barangay where aqua-culture as the main source of income of
the residents, however, families of malnourished children live in shanties along the river banks, and limited area for food production and
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 submerged to high tide year round , its land area is mostly devoted to aquaculture , however residents main source of living comes from
fishing activities and hired laborers in fishponds. Programs/plans and activities will be concentrated in the first ten (10) barangays so that
we can uplift their nutritional status. With these, we were able to make our objectives for the 2018. Municipal Nutrition Action Plan .

III. CONCLUSION/RECOMMENDATION

All MNC members should actively participate in all programs and projects. Linking agencies should submit their reports on time
and all the activites should be properly documented. Regular monitoring and evaluation is the best way of assessing programs and
projects.

IV. GENERAL OBJECTIVES

To improve the nutritional status of infants, preschoolers ,school children , pregnant and lactating mothers at the end of the
year.

Specific Objectives:

1. To reduce the prevalence rate of severely and underweight preschoolers from 2.3 % (368) to 1.7% (294)
or a 20% reduction by the end of December 2018.
2. To reduce the prevalence rate of Severely and wasted school children from 3.1% (518) to 2.5% (414) or 20%
reduction by the end of school year 2018.

ACTIVITY OBJECTIVES:

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 1. To increase Iron Supplementation to pre-school children, pregnant and lactating women of the municipality by the end of
2018.
2. To maintain Garantisadong Pambata coverage of 100% by end of 2018.
3. To provide assorted vegetable seeds to families of severe and underweight, 4P’s and 29 schools, establish school
gardens/floating/wall gardens and nurseries before the end of December 2018.
4. To intensify nutrition education through PABASA SA NUTRISYON/IYCF/FIRST 1,000 DAYS to different
barangays targeting parents of malnourished children, pregnant and lactating mothers as well as teenage mothers and
4P’s beneficiaries.
5. To conduct feeding program to all 30 severely underweight pre-school children and food package distribution to 338
underweight children.
6. To conduct school feeding program to 518 wasted and severely wasted children.
7. To encourage all mothers especially teenage mothers to practice exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months and
continued up to two years with appropriate complementary foods.
8. To increase awareness on responsible parenthood and family planning to new couples.
9. To develop awareness on adolescence reproductive health.
10.To increase immunization coverage of children on BCG, Hepatitis, Penta, OPV, Measles, MMR,Pneumonia .
11.To conduct livelihood seminar/trainings to parents of malnourished children.
12. To conduct capability building activities for implementers and beneficiaries.
13.To ensure availability and utilization of fortified food products in all household at all times.
14.To maintain strong 26 Barangays BNC and 1 MNC.

The Local Government of Hagonoy showed great concern in the malnutrition problem , the Municipal Nutrition
Committee has been organized to solve the issues on malnutrition. Different agencies come up with various activities for implementation to
address malnutrition problems in our municipality. And after the year of implementation, we will see the impact of the different programs
on these children based on the results of the new eOPT to be conducted by the office. (Comparison of eOPT results 2017-2018 Annex VI).

After this situational analysis, a municipal plan of action for nutrition was formulated by the Municipal Nutrition Committee with
NGO’s support and commitment. All activities are focused in the eradication of malnutrition or in uplifting the nutritional status of the
whole town of Hagonoy, with its entire population at stake. All agencies in the planning pledged to make their plans fully implemented to
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 meet the objectives they set and to accomplish their goals, as the whole population may be vulnerable to it without proper education . As a
proof of their support in this objectives and in the implementation of the 2018 MNAP, all signed for their commitment and full dedication in
making Hagonoy aware of all the aspects of GOOD NUTRITION.

V. PROGRAM AND PROJECTS:

Several projects and programs are listed for the guide of agencies on activities to be implemented to eliminate the problem on
nutrition. See attached listing.

VI. FACILITATING ACTIVITIES

A. HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT-This includes various capability building or staff development to all nutrition
committee members, Lingkod lingap sa Nayon ,Mother Leaders as well as Barangay Health Workers as implementers and
mothers or families of below normal children as beneficiary targets for nutritional needs of the whole population.

B. NUTRITION ADVOCACY-Nutrition concerns and issues to be discussed to non-government organizations for the
purpose of convincing them to get involved in the nutrition awareness and to act for the solutions of malnutrition problems.
Seminars, conventions and other meetings of the agency heads will be given emphasis for nutrition advancement of the
concern agency to be echoed in the target population of the program.

C. POLICY AND STANDARDS FORMULATION- MNC will pass a nutrition legislative issue or agenda for topics like,
ASIN law, Strengthening of nutrition organization with all personnel involved like Municipal Nutrition Office, Lingkod
Lingap sa Nayon or the Barangay Nutrition Scholars, School Canteen, Breastfeeding Stations, and RA-10028.

D. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT-The Municipal Nutrition Committee through the partnership of some non-
government organizations and the commitment of the Local Govermnent Unit will formulate or plan the solutions to
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 address the magnitude of the problem. The committee will conduct researches for the upliftment of the nutritional status of
the population.

E. RESOURCE GENERATION AND MOBILIZATION-Solicitations and other fund raisings for additional resources to be
used for the implementation of various nutrition programs shall be undertaken. Other services with national, regional,
provincial and other private sectors taking the lead for the the usual partnerships of the municipality for the programs and
projects of the nutrition solutions. All concerned agencies with corresponding nutrition programs will be fully utilized for
the success of the programs.

VII. MONITORING AND EVALUATION MECHANISMS

In support of quarter program evaluation, these measures shall be pursued:

1. Local executives and committees shall be given the responsibility of planning, implementing and evaluating local health and
nutrition program to make such program more responsive to their needs. Community activities shall be encouraged and be
supported. Community mobilization and participation shall be emphasized. Technical studies on the determination and
development of appropriate technology like bottled bangus, bangus tinapa making, dried fish, agar-agar culture, bagoong making,
fish/squid balls, native cakes- bibingka/puto and others shall be encouraged to boost income of the families of malnourished
children.Other technical skills or trainings are offered to parents of malnourished children to be self employed and generate
additional income for their family needs.

2. Monthly follow- up of severe and underweight children to monitor gain weight. This is done by the barangay
workers-LLN/ML. Periodic weighing with weight chart as supporting papers, under the supervision of their respective nutrition
staff. Daily activities such a health maintenance, nutrition education and home visitation, are conducted to check the
effectiveness of the program. A wall chart entry is a guide to present accomplishments quarterly. Staff from the municipal as
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 well as the provincial nutrition committee will closely monitor yearly activities. Mother agency will do follow-up of their
planned activities.

3. Manpower Development- To serve as an early warning device on local nutrition conditions, this support programs/nutrition in
development were instituted. Meetings of different kinds for LLN’s, MNC , MAO and other concerned agencies or individuals
are expected to increase or enhance program efficiency . Projects with nutrition related activities and nutrition benefit will be
planned and be continued for program impact. Training for this manpower will be given due time and sufficient funding.

4. Municipal Nutrition Committee Meeting. The MNC will meet every quarter to discuss things for the nutrition programs of the
municipality. The meeting will be called by the mayor through a letter of invitation with the agenda specified in the letter. In
Hagonoy the MNC has agreed on the time and date of the meeting, to be specific every last Thursday of the first month of the
quarter. During the meeting, every member of each agency is also requested to bring in their quarterly report to the nutrition
officer, to be entered in the Municipal Wall Chart by the MNAO with agencies heads go signal.

5. MNC’s Field Team Visits -MNC members will choose a day in a quarter to visit some activities of their planned activities. But
each agency will visit their own programs and projects every now and then or as necessary.

6. Final Evaluation will be done yearly by the Provincial Evaluation Team and Regional Evaluation Team for ranking of best
nutrition implementers. All MNC members will be called by the Municipal Mayor to ensure a 100% attendance during evaluation.
MNC members will bring their supporting paper and other documents related to their projects.

7. Program Implementation. The respective agency will ensure their planned activities for implementation within the year’s
timetable. Timetable for each agency has been entered in the Municipal Nutrition Action Plan.

8. Submission of Reports-all agencies will be given quarterly forms for their accomplishments. Target activities with their percent
accomplishments will be reported through the Municipal Nutrition Officer. Consolidation will be made by the Nutrition Office
and will be entered in the Municipal Wall Chart. Submission time will be first week or every 7 th of the first month of the
quarter. (January, April, July and October)
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VIII. BUDGETARY REQUIREMENTS

A total amount of Php 1,207,493.22 has been appropriated to the nutrition program of the municipality. The financial sources of
the above intervention activities will be mainly from the agency concern be it from local or national government. Assistance from
foreign or private sources will only augment local resources upon the approval of the Municipal Mayor and municipal budget
inclusion for the year. Disbursement is done by the agency concern with supporting documents. There is also allotment from Annual
Investment Program budget.

IX. NUTRITION MONTH CELEBRATION

For the year 2018, the National Nutrition Council spearheaded the Nutrition Month celebration with the theme “Ugaliing
Magtanim, Sapat na Nutrisyon Aanihin.” Every agency both private and public are encouraged to take part in the nationwide
celebration of Nutrition Month. Every barangay , all public and private schools in our municipality prepared well for their
culminating activity for nutrition month.

Activities for the July 2018 Nutrition Month is one of the agenda in the MNC’S 2nd quarterly meeting. The Municipal
Nutrition Committee hosted the flag raising ceremony on July 2, 2018. It was followed by the ceremonial planting of malunggay
cuttings in recycleable containers , with MNC Vice Chairperson Mayora Flordeliza C. Manlapaz, Committee on Health Chairman
Councilor Jeffrey C. Reyes, OIC-MNAO Mrs. Cristina ST. Manio and all Lingkod Lingap sa Nayon, participated in the activity. The
planted malunggay cuttings shall be given to families of malnourished children to encourage them to plant and eat vegetables. Also,
different kinds of vegetable seeds were given to parents of severe and underweight children and to some barangays to establish
community /home gardens.Backyard /home food production is considered an important solution to fight malnutrition. The
availability of nutritious foods to all families should be ensured at all times.This will also be part of nutrition education among
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 parents/caregivers , which will create awareness on the health benefits derived from eating home grown vegetables, and cultivating a
home garden would generate an additional income and savings for the family.

On the second week of July , “Isang Araw na Kaligayahan Para kay Bunso”- a traditional treat for the severely underweight children,
it’s fun and games for kids , a time to enjoy with their parents. The highlight of the activity is the distribution of food package
consisting of nutri- milk, nutri-pack porridge, nutri-pak spaghetti/bacon , nutri-wafer biscuits, rice, and even toys were donated by
some NGO’s. Multi vitamins for the 30 children were also donated by Pharmalink, aside from the foods served at Jollibee Store
Hagonoy, as their commitment/support for the nutrition month. The fortified food package purchased by the Municipal Nutrition
Office is enough for three months consumption of the thirthy (30) malnourished children.

Nutrition Month parade were conducted by most public schools despite the rainy days of July. In other schools , activities includes
poster /slogan making /drawing and cooking contest. For the Junior Master Chef “Pinakbet” cooking contest , the Hagonoy East and
West District Schools prepared their own special recipe submitted to the PSWDO screening committee. Cooking contest in different
schools were done ahead of time, to come up with the best preparation and presentation. Two entries were submitted and luckily the
contestants from Hagonoy West District won the first place with a prize of P5,000.00. The contestants from Hagonoy East district
received a consolation prize of P2,000.00.

For the Malunggay Kahit Saan Contest - “Parents of Day Care Children Edition” , a family from Barangay San Pedro joined and won
a consolation prize of P1,000.00. This contest served as eye opener to most parents to encourage them to plant malunggay in their
backyard, this wonder vegetable is full of nutritive value, can fight cancer, hypertension and diabetis . Plant and eat malunggay for
a healthier life.

Due to inclement weather conditions and high- tide which affected most barangays in our town, Nutrition month celebration is
extended until the first week of August 2018. In general , a very meaningful and successful nutrition month celebration was
conducted in our municipality.

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Prepared by:

CRISTINA SY TAMCO MANIO

Acting Municipal Nutrition Action Officer IV

Approved :

RAULITO T. MANLAPAZ, SR.

Municipal Mayor

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Annexes:
Annex I eOPT Results
Pre-school children
Annex II Ranking of Barangays(Socio economic Profile)
Annex III Causal Model
Annex IV Spot Map
Annex V Prevalence Rate Comparison 2017-2018
By school children
Annex VI Prevalence Rate Comparison 2017-2018
By Pre schoolers
Annex VII Pie Chart Presentation of 2018 Weights
School Children
Annex VIII Pie Chart Presention of 2018 Weights
Pre School Children

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