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Without face-to-face classes, gov't eyes house-to-house feeding program for children: official

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Jamaine Punzalan, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2020/news/07/23/20200626-navotas-education-fisherman-jc-9123.jpg"/><figcaption>Angelina Flores, 8, and her sister Lovely Faith will be enrolling in grade school. Children like them will have to adapt to mobile technology to be able to practice distance learning in schools during the COVID-19 pandemic. <em>Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News/File</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA — The government eyes bringing food packs to the houses of the poorest schoolchildren, while <a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/07/21/20/duterte-approves-limited-face-to-face-classes-in-areas-with-low-risk-of-covid-19-spread">face-to-face classes</a> are limited to areas facing low risk of novel coronavirus transmission, an official said Thursday. </p><p>&quot;Kahit na walang (even if there are no) face-to-face classes, we will still push for this supplemental feeding programs para sa mga kids sa daycares, pati sa Department of Education,&quot; said Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles. </p><p>&quot;We need to do it house-to-house. Kailangan iyong grocery packs o food packs na ibibigay natin, bahay-bahay,&quot; he told ANC. </p><p>(The grocery packs or food packs will be distributed house-to-house.) </p><p>The aid should contain products developed by the science department like nutri-buns and ready-to-eat meals, he said. </p><p>The agency needs to partner with local governments willing to host production centers for these food products, he said. </p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/V_Uruck0F-Q?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div><p>Nograles made the statement a day after the Social Weather Stations released a survey showing some <a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/07/22/20/52-million-families-hungry-ph-records-highest-hunger-incidence-since-2014-says-sws">5.2 million Filipino families experienced involuntary hunger</a> in the past 3 months as the country battled the COVID-19 pandemic. The figure is the highest recorded since September 2014, said the pollster. </p><p>&quot;Siyempre nababahala kami sa mga figures na ito. We have to increase our efforts to provide for families na naka-experience ng kagutuman,&quot; said Nograles. </p><p>(Of course, we are alarmed by these figures. We have to increase our efforts to provide for families who experienced hunger.)</p><p>Among these efforts is partnering with farmer organizations so that the government can directly buy their harvest and use these for feeding programs, he said. </p>

<p>The government eyes bringing food packs to the houses of the poorest schoolchildren, while face-to-face classes are limited to areas facing low risk of novel coronavirus transmission, an official said Thursday. </p>

The government eyes bringing food packs to the houses of the poorest schoolchildren, while face-to-face classes are limited to areas facing low risk of novel coronavirus transmission, an official said Thursday.

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Without face-to-face classes, gov't eyes house-to-house feeding program for children: official

Jamaine Punzalan,

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Published Jul 23, 2020 01:00 PM PHT

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