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“In this country, every day, I witness a disaster,” Philippine Red Cross (PRC) Chairman and CEO Dick Gordon remarked on the pressing issues of food insecurity and child malnutrition in the Philippines. According to the 2021 Expanded National Nutrition Survey (ENNS) by the Philippines’ National Nutrition Council (NNC), 2 percent of Filipino households are severely […]
Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles, together with private sector partners from Pilipinas Kontra Gutom and Rise Against Hunger, distributed free food packs to residents of Marawi City and Lanao del Sur on Tuesday, March 2, 2021 as part of the Duterte administration’s nationwide effort to fight hunger, poverty and child malnutrition. Lanao del Sur is among […]
With data showing a rising number of families experiencing involuntary hunger, and with the country’s population expected to grow by 1.9 million this year, the government is now moving to provide food assistance for the most vulnerable groups in the country: malnourished children aged 6 months to 23 months old and nutritionally-at-risk pregnant women.This according […]