PAOFI Nutrition Program aims to help alleviate malnutrition primarily to the poor and disadvantaged children by providing nutritious meals through feeding programs and ready-to-use therapeutic food.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
- To provide nutritious meals to malnourished children in the community.
- To increase the number of feeding children with normal nutritional status from 85% to 90%
- To provide activities and seminars to feeding beneficiaries and parents
- To provide activities, trainings and seminars to feeding volunteers for capacity building
Supplemental Feeding Program – provides one (1) full meal daily which includes rice and viand to malnourished children ages 2 – 12 years old from Mondays to Fridays. Through the help of faithful sponsors and volunteers, the feeding program runs daily except Saturdays and Sundays from 9:00am to 12:00 noon. There are almost 350 malnourished children every year who are accepted and fed daily in the nine (9) feeding centers around Payatas A and B, Quezon City.
Aside from the daily meals, the feeding program also offers different activities for both beneficiaries and parents such as free medical check-up and medicines, free baptism, common diseases and nutrition education seminars, cooking contests and Christmas parties. The beneficiaries are intended to stay in the feeding program for a minimum of one year or until they reach 12 years old and achieve normal nutritional status . The parents are also required to assist in the feeding program once a week as their counterpart in the program.