Tacurong City starts this year's feeding program
Local News • 23:13 PM Fri Aug 26, 2016
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By:
Jez Billano-Fabreag, LGU Tacurong City Information
TACURONG CITY - One hundred
twenty days of healthy and free lunch for schoolchildren in Tacurong City will
start on August 30 under the Busog Lusog Talino” School Feeding Program (BLT).
This is the fourth year of
BLT implementation in Tacurong City, officials said.
To mark this milestone, Mayor
Lina Montilla, said the city government decided to adopt a new school for
BLT—the Lancheta-Magallon Elementary School (LMES) in Barangay Lancheta.
LMES is the new addition to
the BLT family previously composed of six elementary schoolsand Dr. Manuel Griño
Memorial Central School in Brgy. Griño Tina Elementary School in Brgy. Tina
J. Hector Lacson Elementary School in Brgy. Calean Ma. Montilla Memorial
Elementary School in Brgy. EJC Montilla Josue Alcasid Central School in Brgy.
Baras and Lourdes Pama Elementary School in Brgy. Rajah Muda. In each school,
40 undernourished children will be fed for 120 school days.
In preparation for the new
BLT year, the LGU had conducted food safety seminars for parents and food
handlers in each of the seven schools from August 23-30, 2016.
In the last three years,
Jollibee Group Foundation and LGU-Tacurong engaged in cost-sharing scheme to
sustain BLT in the city.
This year, only the city
government will fund the BLT implementation in the seven schools,” according to
Montilla.
We want to continue BLT
because we have seen good results. This is our own little way of helping the
Department of Education in reducing dropout rates,” the mayor added.
Busog Lusog Talino School
Feeding Program in the City of Tacurong is also supported by private and civic
organizations. By Jez Billano-Fabreag,
LGU Tacurong City Information