Erwin mulls healthy food packs for calamity victims

Healthier meals on a spending plan for calamity victims might be forthcoming.

Social Welfare Secretary Erwin Tulfo is looking on likelihood of furnishing a lot more wholesome foods support for calamity survivors irrespective of confined cash.

“Noted po. We go on to analyze this issue. Relaxation confident we will consider to come across a solution to a wholesome food items for calamity victims on a meager spending budget for every box. I value your notion. Salamat po,” he wrote on Fb.

Tulfo gave the assurance following a worried team advised offering more healthy food stuff merchandise for emergency support to calamity-strike communities. The Office of Social Welfare and Enhancement presently provides a box of foodstuff goods, like rice and assorted canned merchandise, to folks affected by storms and other calamities.

The new DSWD chief now consulted with the Nationwide Nourishment Council to look at the food items goods contained in the calamity assist packing containers. He questioned NNC head Dr. Azucena Dayanghirang if the council agrees with the contents of the DSWD foods packs.

According to Tulfo, the nourishment chief suggested supplying vegetables these kinds of as canned mushrooms or corn, and not just canned sardines and corned beef. “Thank you National Diet Council,” he claimed.

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