Now on it’s third wave, the Adopt-A-Child Program of the provincial government finds another 23 malnourished children to cater with nutrition and health services at Brgys. Nueva Visayas and Nuevo Iloco in Mawab starting July up to November 2012.
The presentation of the 3rd batch was part of the launching of the 38th Nutrition Month celebration on July 9 at the Capitol Lobby. Right after the short program, the focal persons went to the Adopt-A-Child recipient areas in Mawab to join the barangay officials, local government unit, and parents for a vegetable planting.
Adopt-A-Child is a nutrition program started by the provincial government with its respective departments and offices adopting malnourished children identified by the Provincial Nutrition Office and the employees facilitating a 120-day food supplemental feeding.
The program also serves as an entry point of the other services and interventions that the provincial government could extend to the family and the community as a whole.
In their first and second batch experiences, the employees had a big heart of not only adopting the malnourished and severely underweight children but the family as a whole. They extended services like parents’ medication, house repair, giving of basically needed furniture, livelihood provision such as fishpond and sari-sari store, vegetable gardening, and other household support. They even became part of family events such as birthday celebrations of their respective adopted children.
After the successful performances of its first and second series, this initiated program of Governor Arturo T. Uy as the Chairman of the Provincial Nutrition Council (PNC), has gone far touching lives that cause government units, private individuals, and organizations to reach out on the same purpose.
