"Kalamidad Paghandaan: Gutom at Malnutrisyon Agapan"

                The council leads the country in the celebration, in coordination with other government departments. The agency has held theme writing contest in January to come up with this year's theme. Ms. Desiree P. Reyes of Los Baños, Laguna submitted the winning theme selected from among the 304 entries received from all over the country. 

The celebration aims to:
1) promote interventions to address nutritional needs in emergencies and disasters including preparedness, response and recovery; 
2) mobilize responders particularly the local nutrition clusters and stakeholders to address gaps in nutrition in emergencies response from national to barangay levels; and 
3) increase awareness among families and individuals on coping and resiliency strategies to prevent malnutrition and worsening of nutritional status in times of emergencies and disasters. 
source:http://www.phaccess.com/2014/04/2014-nutrition-month-theme-kalamidad.html

                 November last year a very strong typhoon came to the Philippines particularly in Visayas. The people in the whole area was unprepared for such a very destructible force of nature. It left millions of people deranged and thousands dead. Until now the whole place is still recovering from  what destroyed it. 

                
               During and after the typhoon, the people went to evacuation centers to find shelter and only relied to relief goods given by the government, private organizations and other people. There was also shortage of food because of transportation so it resulted to diseases and hunger which caused to malnutrition.

               
                They are spreading this message so that when there is another disaster that strikes this country we would best be prepared.

                                     

Sir,

    
        First thing's first, I would like to make it clear that I am a citizen of the Philippines, a  democratic country, and I am entitled to state my opinions addressed to certain matters in this country.

        I have two main things in mind, first is about this country's economy state. It's true that we're still in the top 5 of Asia's growing countries but let's face it, the only people who're getting wealthier are the ones who're already rich and the poor people just keeps getting swallowed by poverty. The second one is about the projects of the government to make the Filipino's life much better and easier but instead of making this as soon as possible, sometimes it would really be finished but with a much lower quality and most of the time it would take much longer and we just wait and wait until the next thing we know the money meant for the project has been stolen by another hotshot government official.

         I sometimes think that the straight path you've promised may already be too much crooked.

                                                                                                               Sincerely yours,
                                                                                                              Nyvonne Recaido
                                                                                               Ilocos Sur National High School student