School Feeding Program Improved Nutritional Status and Class Attendance of Students
Based on the data, the feeding program has improved the dietary diversity and nutritional status of schoolchildren.
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Coloran Integrated School
joy.magbanua005@deped.gov.ph
The School Feeding Program (SFP) is a targeted safety net program assigned to provide educational and health benefits to vulnerable children. It also improves the nutritional and class attendance of school children.
In our school, a substantial proportion of schoolchildren suffer from malnutrition, their growth is stunted or experience short-term hunger.
As the focal person for feeding in our school, Coloran Integrated School of Siay District, I should possess and do my best to help the severely wasted and wasted nutritional status children to increase to normal by helping them giving milky bun, nutribun, milk, and ready-to-eat aid from government on time as the foods arrived.
I also do my best to give an orientation to parents of malnourished children to advocate the right way of hand washing, and cleanliness before handing them food.
Undernutrition among schoolchildren seriously affects their ability to learn. The nutritional status of school-aged children impacts their health, cognition, and subsequently their educational achievement.
Poor health due to inadequate nutrition among school-aged children will likely diminish their cognitive development through physiological charges.
Based on the data, the feeding program has improved the dietary diversity and nutritional status of schoolchildren.
Furthermore, a higher percentage of attendance rates and lower dropout rates were observed among the beneficiaries.
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