A Project Proposal to

GULAYAN s a P a a r a l a n a t
Ta h a n a n P R O G R A M
I. Title: GULAYAN SA PAARALAN AT TAHANAN PROGRAM
II. Target Date of Implementation: A.Y. 2018 up tp present
III. Implementing Units: SARRAT NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

IV. RATIONALE

One of the thrust of the Department of Education (DepEd) is to strengthen and

intensify the sustainable implementation of the Gulayan sa Paaralan Project (GPP) in
all public elementary and secondary schools to serve as food basket and have a ready
source of vegetable for the school supplementary feeding program.

Education secretary Leonor Briones, in DepEd Memorandum, No. 95 series of

2018, said that the DepEd- through the Learner Support Services- School Health Division
(BLSS- SHD) – sustains the implementation of this project in public elementary and
secondary schools nationwide “to address malnutrition and promote vegetables
production and consumption among children”.

Meanwhile, Briones also announced that DepEd will conduct a “Search for
Outstanding Implementers” at the schools division and regional levels to give
recognition to the best implementers of the GPP.

Furthermore, Briones enjoined all regional directors, schools division

superintendents, and school healds to “provide full administrative support to the
management of the program”.
 According to the report of the Nutrition and Health Council, hunger and
malnutrition are two main problems that really affect 19% or 3,268,000
families out of the 17, 400,000 families in the country due to lack of food to
eat or money to buy food.

Moreover, the term Gulayan sa Paaralan has started since 2007 to

support the hunger mitigation initiatives of the government. Likewise, Sarrat
National High School is in full support to this program and its
implementation. It’s always been that SNHS was practicing the principles of
Gulayan sa Paaralan Program before it was adapted by the Department of
Education.

However, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world. Due to the
nature of the virus, particularly how it is transmitted, it has altered human
behaviours, relations and lifestyles, and had profound impacts on the
economic, political and cultural landscapes of societies across the world. In
time of pandemic due to Covid-19, many people lost their jobs and had
limited mobility. Meanwhile, our government is now strengthening the
implementation of school-community food production under this program,
which shall be tied-up with other concerned agencies. But DepEd is not an
exemption to this virus. Thus, this affects the Gulayan sa Paaralan Program in
its implementation.

But Sarrat NHS will always find ways to make this program become
successful. Since, face-to-face is not yet permitted in this pandemic, SNHS
make the Gulayan sa Paaralan to Gulayan sa Tahanan Program. Teachers and
learners were encouraged to do their backyard gardening at home and apply
the good practices of gardening learned at school, as part of their
responsibilities
in sharing and implements consumption of vegetables among their
community for a better healthy and balance diet.

Furthermore, the learners were trained to grow vegetables using

containers like sack, mineral bottles, and others, they were also assigned to
observed the agronomic analysis of the vegetable plants for proper fertilizer
management, water management, weeding management, pest and disease
control measures and entrepreneur. Proper land preparation, soil
sterilization, seed sowing and transplanting were also taught to them.

With this, we can help not only ourselves but particularly our students
to invest knowledge in agriculture which gives them the idea of a lifetime
livelihood and help them become a responsible citizen in the future. But
healthier lifestyle and boosting the mind of the learners is the primary goal
of this program.

V. OBJECTIVES

Gulayan sa Paaralan Program aims to:

1. establish Gulayan sa Paaralan;
2. maintain school garden as vegetable sources to sustain school
feeding;
3. practice and develop students in planting vegetables;
4. provide a sense of responsibility to the students and teacher
incharge in maintaining the facility; and
5. actively engage and share responsibility to the stakeholders in the
construction and management of the facility.
Gulayan sa Tahanan Program aims to:
1. respond to the challenges brought by the COVID-19 pandemic;
2. promote vegetable production in Sarrat National High School;
3. establish and maintain school gardens as ready food basket/source of
vegetables in sustaining feeding;
4. produce vegetables which have rich sources of protein, vitamins and
minerals, and eventually increase vegetable consumption, and
improve learner’s nutrition;
5. showcase small-scale food production models, and
6. inculcate among the participants the values of gardening, good health
and nutrition, love of labor, and caring for others.

VI. TARGET BENEFICIARIES

The project shall be beneficial to the following stakeholders:

Sarrat NHS. Provide Sarrat National High School a well equip agricultural
crop production laboratory facility.

SNHS Students. The implementation of Gulayan sa Paaralan at Tahanan

projects the students can actually have a hands-on activity in vegetable
production and start learning and gaining skills in vegetable gardening.
The harvested vegetable will sustain the nutrition of malnourished
students. Encourage and motivate students in vegetable gardening and
helps them to realize the importance of vegetable production.

SNHS Teachers. This facility will also aid and provide ease to the teachers
in the whole study course in teaching agricultural crop production
students.
Parents . Adopt the good practices of the students and teachers in planting
vegetables to bring the practices at home or their community.

VII. DESCRIPTION OF MAJOR ACTIVITIES

The Gulayan sa Paaralan coordinators (YES-O and TLE advisers), head
teachers and school principal together with the internal and external
stakeholders will meet to talk about the different activities to be undertaken
during the implementation of the program.

A. Mobilization and Organizing Implementation

1. Inform the students, parents, and teachers about the program and
activities.
2. Create working committees needed
B. Implementation of the Project
1. Each class shall work for the realization of the above-cited
objectives.
C. Internal Monitoring & Evaluation
The programs/ activities shall be monitored by each of the chairman of
the different committees with the supervision of the School Head. All
activities shall be documented supported with photos.
Prepared by: Submitted to:

CELLIN U. CABER ANALIZA R. BARCARSE

YES-O Adviser Head Teacher III, Science

WENDY D. BALISACAN
YES-O Co- Adviser

Approved by:

MARIETTA B. YAP, EdD

School Principal