One common problem in our community is food shortage. With the help of every foundation, organization, individual, and our government, we can start a program that can help the students in our society to lessen this dilemma. The foundation of a healthy mind is a healthy body. Individuals need to be physically healthy and mentally upright for them to function properly in our society. When students are well-nourished, they are more attentive and participative in school activities. Absenteeism is minimized and they get better grades. So this project was conceptualized to sustain and ensure that students eat the right food especially the lowly and financially unstable. Through this program, we will be able to see progress from our undernourished students as they gain weight. Undeniably, eight months is too short to see the progress, but this project also aspires to involve the guardians and teach their families the importance of budgeting and providing healthy foods at a very minimal cost. Share a food program is the most outreached solution we could offer to our society. Basically, it’s the best preparation for students in public schools, so they will be encouraged to eat healthy food and to be monitored if there is any progress and development in their health.
OBJECTIVES
To improve the nutritional health of the Junior high school (Under Wasted and Severely Wasted Nutritional Status) students of Sitero Francisco Memorial National High School
To increase school attendance and enrollment and to encourage students to stay in school longer
To inculcate and develop their knowledge about the importance of healthy living and also to introduce nutrition education
To provide an estimate of the nutritional requirements of students with moderate malnutrition, examining wasted and stunted students separately
To relieve short-term hunger
To improve the dietary management of moderate malnutrition, growth, cognition, and academic performance
To assist indigent students in their physical, mental, and spiritual development that will allow them to be at par with their age group
2017
2018
This kind of program called "Share a Food Program" in Edukasyon sa Pagpapakatao Department is made through voluntary action. The EsP Teachers give moral and financial support to held the program for the students who need health assistance. This is also made with the partnership of the Red Cross Volunteers.
ESP, SPED Dept, RCY fight against malnutrition By John Matthew M. Serdeña
To improve the nutritional status of selected students at Sitero Francisco Memorial National High School, the Edukasyon sa Pagpapakatao / Special Education Department headed by Mrs. Leonida C. Bangayan, coordinator, in cooperation with Red Cross Youth led by Mrs. Ernalin G. Santos, adviser, joined forces in conducting Share-a-Food Program for the students from August 2018-March 2019. They intended to feed students from Grades 7 tom 10 who are underweight, wasted and severely wasted in their nutritional status based on their Body Mass Index (BMI). The activity also aimed to improve school attendance and enrollment and to encourage the students to stay in school longer, to inculcate and to develop their knowledge about the importance of healthy living, to introduce nutrition education, to provide an estimate of the nutritional requirements of students with moderate malnutrition, to examine wasted and stunted students separately, to relieve short-term hunger, to improve the dietary management of moderate malnutrition, growth, cognition, and academic performance, and to assist indigent students in their physical, mental and spiritual development. The feeding program was conducted five times a month through the assistance of teachers from ESP/SPED Department, RCY members and some teacher-volunteers. [AP]