SAN JOSE, Antique – The municipality of Barbaza in this province has started to implement the supplementary feeding program (SFP) of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).
Jessie Cristales, focal person of the SFP, said that Barbaza is the first municipality in the province to implement the program targeting children within its 30 child development centers (CDCs).
The 716 enrollees of the CDCs were provided with rice cereal and viand funded through the SFP.
“In the coming days, I expect the other 17 towns in the province to implement this program,” he said.
Cristales added that except for the island municipality of Caluya, all the other towns in the province already received their first 60 days of Lot 1 viand allocation. Lot 1 is composed of cooking oil, pineapple tidbits, spaghetti pasta, spaghetti sauce, corned beef, tomato sauce, and green peas by the supplier.
“The National Food Authority provincial office has already delivered the rice for the cereal,” he noted.
Cristales said the DSWD Region 6 advised that municipalities can start with their SFP once their Lot 1 and rice are already available.
The Lot 2 component of the program will still be subjected to bidding. Lot 2 is composed of vegetable variants to be cooked and served to children beneficiaries.
The SFP runs for a total of 120 days that will benefit 674 CDCs from the 18 municipalities of Antique.
The first six months of its implementation in Antique were allotted P37.611 million. (With a report from PNA/PN)
