Saturday, February 18, 2012

CATARMAN, Northern Samar -- Governor Paul Daza told nutrition officials to fine tune plans for expanding the reach of nutrition school on-the-air program in the province to reduce malnutrition rate.

“With the number of people that needs to get nutrition education, there’s a need to come up with creative idea. We can involve up to 5,000 listeners in just one batch,” Daza said in a recent meeting held at his office.

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The DyNN FM 97.3 Radyo Kasugbong, a nutri-skwela project of the National Nutrition Council based in Catubig town, was established to deliver nutrition messages.

It has around 200 graduates from two batches of nutrition school on-the-air held late last year and early 2012 for listeners in Catubig and nearby towns.

Under the nutrition school on-the-air, mothers set a two-hour time every day to listen to the radio program. Various assessment activities including tests were conducted to measure the knowledge of enrollees.

“I like the program especially if there’s a way to test the ability of listeners. I want to expand the scope. Without a doubt, that’s a great program. We need to expand the reach and fine-tune the idea,” the governor said.

For over one year, Radyo Kasugbong has been targeting mass audience in Catubig, Laoang, Gamay, Pambujan, and Mondragon.

The Provincial Government here is optimistic to hit the health, nutrition and education targets under the Millennium Development Goals with more national and local government spending for social services this year until 2015.

In terms of addressing malnutrition, Daza claimed that they are on track on hitting the 14.9 percent target on prevalence of underweight children from the current 17 percent rate based on last year’s survey. (Leyte Samar Daily Express)

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