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NNC-IX joins the 42nd Anniversary Celebration
The National Nutrition Council (NNC) Regional Office IX together with the other regional offices joined the week-long 42nd NNC Anniversary celebration on June 20-24, 2016 highlighting 42 years of quality nutrition service. The activity was held at the NNC Central Office where over a hundred seventy NNC staff actively participated in activities that fostered camaraderie,…
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Child Fund International Supports BNSs in Zamboanga del Norte
Twenty one Barangay Nutrition Scholars (BNS) in Zamboanga Del Norte were trained on the basic course for Barangay Nutrition Scholars on April 20-22, 2016 at Dapitan City. The training was sponsored and funded by the Child Fund International (CFI) a non-government organization that expanded its services to the municipalities of Gulatac and Leon B. Postigo,…
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Child Fund International sponsors BNS Training in Zamboanga Del Norte
Twenty one Barangay Nutrition Scholars (BNS) in Zamboanga Del Norte were trained on the basic course for Barangay Nutrition Scholars on April 20-22, 2016 at Dapitan City. The training was sponsored and funded by the Child Fund International (CFI) a non-government organization that expanded its services to the municipalities of Gulatac and Leon B. Postigo,…
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“Prioritize Women’s Nutrition!” NNC 9’s call to support Women
Carrying this year’s theme “Kapakanan ni Juana, Isama sa Agenda” (El buen estar di Juana, Pone na Agenda) Zamboanga City launched the 2016 National Women’s Month celebration with a “Marcha de las Mujeres” (Parade for Women) on the first day of March 2016. Together with other national government agencies, universities and state colleges, hospitals and…
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Regional Coordination Meeting of Nutrition Action Officers – Zamboanga Peninsula
18 February 2016 the National Nutrition Council Regional Office 9 headed by Nutrition Program Coordinator Maria del Pilar Pamela R. Tarroza held the first semester Regional Meeting of the Nutrition Action Officers (NAOs) in Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay. The meeting served as venue for the NAOs to have a look at the nutrition situation of children…
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National Goiter Awareness Week Celebration in Dapitan City
29 January 2016 Dapitan City, the Department of Health led the celebration of the National Goiter Awareness Week (GAW) bannering the theme “Goiter sugpuin, isip patalinuhin, Iodized Salt gamitin!”An annual national event, the GAW focuses on information dissemination and prevention of goiter and other iodine deficiency disorders that may result to mental and physical retardation…
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Local Government Units benefited new steel rulers from National Nutrition Council
Stunting is a chronic or long term malnutrition that affects children early in life indicated by their height that is short for their age. Being “Pandak” or “Potot” is commonly accepted in many families as normal size for Filipinos, but could actually be an outcome of chronic poor health and nutrition in the early childhood…
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IYCF Peer Counsellors trained in Zamboanga Peninsula
The National Nutrition Council Regional Office 09 had initiated the training of IYCF Peer Counsellors in selected barangays in the region. From January of this year 2014 at least 108 mothers from seven barangays in the cities of Dipolog, Pagadian, Isabela and the municipality of Diplahan in Zamboanga Sibugay were given the basic knowledge and…
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40th Nutrition Month Celebration successfully launched in Zamboanga City
The National Nutrition Council Regional Office 9 together with the members of the Regional Nutrition Committee joined the city of Zamboanga on the Launching of the 40thNutrition Month Celebration. The activity started with a motorcade around the city proper and ended up to the west coast Barangay Tulungatung, one of the transitory sites where evacuees…
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Nutrition in Emergencies Information Caravan successfully conducted in Zamboanga Peninsula
The National Nutrition Council Region 9 in partnership with the Department of Health Region 9 successfully conducted an Information Caravan on Nutrition in Emergencies (NIE) in the provinces of Zamboanga Del Sur, Zamboanga Del Norte and Zamboanga Sibugay on July 8-10, 2014 respectively. A total of 150 Nutrition Action Officers (NAOs) and members of the…
