Gov. Tubban’s request for Kalinga pregnant women from NFP granted, around 1,765 food set provided

Tabuk City, Kalinga – Around 1,765 nutritious food set will be given for the pregnant women in the province with the approval of Governor Ferdinand B. Tubban’s request to include Kalinga as the recipient of the National Food Policy (NFP) project.

The Provincial Information Office in a report disclosed that Cabinet Secretary and Inter-Agency Task Force Zero Hunger (IATF-ZH) Chairman Karlo Alexei B. Nograles, along with Governor Tubban, will turn over the food set on September 25, 2021.

The project aims to address the dietary needs of nutritionally at-risk pregnant women for 90 days. This is to prevent child wasting and stunting during the first 1,000 days of a child, by providing the nutritional needs before birth.

Tubban expressed gratitude to the IATF-ZH for choosing the province as one of their recipients as he assured that the province will “support and contribute to the goals of making our country hunger-free by beginning to implement such activities and projects with regard to hunger” in the province.

The IATF-ZN was created through Executive Order No. 101 on Jan. 10, 2020, issued by President Rodrigo Duterte as part of the government’s program to form a lasting and effective public-private partnership (PPP) to put an end to hunger in the country by 2030.

The IATF-ZN was created to formulate the ‘National Food Policy’ which outlines the government’s priorities and map efforts to achieve zero hunger designed to free more Filipinos from hunger and achieve food security.

The task force is also tasked to coordinate, rationalize, monitor, and assess the efforts of concerned government agencies and instrumentalities to ensure a whole-of-government approach to eradicating hunger and achieving food security.

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