Tabuk City, Kalinga – During the turnover of 1,887 essential food sets to nutritionally at-risk pregnant women in the province, Congressman Allen Jesse Mangaoang highlighted the significant role of the community in mitigating hunger and its offshoot.
The solon stressed that "we should never allow ourselves to be fragmented in confronting the problem and be united instead because it is us who should embrace the advocacy to end hunger."
He explained that hunger should not be tolerated in the people's hearts, but unimaginable in their minds. He added that it should be sympathy and food that shall overflow to those who are in need.
“If everyone is ignorant of the hunger and malnutrition around us, if everyone is not upset that the hungry and malnourished are around us, if everyone is sleeping soundly, while others and their children grapple to get their next meal, hunger and malnutrition will never end,” Mangaoang underscored.
According to the solon, the Inter-Agency Task Force of Zero Hunger chaired by Cabinet Secretary Karlo A. B. Nograles along with the multi-non-governmental organizations, and people with an inclusive approach to the Pilipinas Kontra Gutom (PKG) program is an effective tool or strategy in curbing the hunger problem.
Mangaoang believes that PKG will sustain a holistic program ‘that we assume will be the Number 1 nemesis of hunger.’
“What I pray, is for the leaders who are at the forefront of this program should stay, we need them, our malnourished and hungry people need the goodness, the passion, and the discipleship that has always been in their hearts,” Mangaoang concluded.
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