ICTSI, PBSP launch feeding program

MANILA, Philippines - A private firm and two non-profit organizations have launched the Lusog Dunong Supplemental Feeding Project Year 2 in an effort to step up the fight against malnutrition among children.

The Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP), International Container Terminal Services Inc., and ICTSI Foundation said this year’s program aims to benefit 1,940 children from Parola and Isla Puting Bato day care centers and kindergarten and Grade 1 students from Rosauro Almario Elementary School (RAES) annexes in Parola and Isla Puting Bato in Barangay 20, Tondo, Manila.

PBSP executive director Rafael Lopa said investing in children’s health and development is important and needed in the progress of the nation.

Last March, “round one” of the project benefited 800 pupils, which resulted in the increase in weight of more than 740 children, 243 of whom were underweight before the feeding program.