A total of 1,179 daycare pupils in San Marcelino town, Zambales province will benefit from the 60-day Supplementary Feeding Program (SFP) of the Department of Social Welfare and Development Field Office (DSWD).

Municipal Social Welfare and Development (MSWD) officer Sahra Soria said Tuesday the first batch of the nutritional food items from the DSWD was distributed Monday.

She said the food packs containing rice, bananas, eggs, nutribun, cookies, macaroni pasta, vegetables, fruit juices and noodles were personally received by daycare workers, to be distributed to the daycare learners to improve and sustain the nutritional status of the target children.

The SFP is the provision of food, in addition to the regular meals, to currently enrolled daycare center children. This is recommended by Food and Nutrition Research Institute (FNRI), and served during break time to the children.

Meanwhile, San Marcelino town Mayor Elmer Soria has expressed his full support for the program.

He likewise assured of the strict monitoring and implementation of the program.

Along with other DSWD programs such as Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program, Kapit Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services and Sustainable Livelihood Program, the supplementary feeding seeks to achieve Millennium Development Goal No. 1, which is eradicating extreme poverty and hunger. (PNA)