Malungon bags anew, CenMin's 'green-banner' award

‘Green-Banner’ Awardee – Makikita sa larawan sina (2nd –L) DOH-12 dir. Teogenes F. Baluma at NNC region-12 program coordinator Arceli Latonio (right) habang inaabot kina Malungon town Mayor Reynaldo F. Constantino at sa maybahay nitong si Roselyn bilang MNO volunteer action officer, ang mga prestihiyosong parangal bilang Most Outstanding Municipality sa nutrisyon sa buong lalawigan ng Sarangani at Rehiyon-12, sa kagaganap lamang na 2014 Regional Nutrition Awarding Ceremony sa The Farm Convention Center, Carpenter Hill, Koronadal City. (Isagani Palma/MIO-Malungon).

“A well-nourished community produces good and strong leaders of our society” – Ito ang iilan sa mga ipinaabot na pangkabuunang pananaw ni Malungon town Mayor Reynaldo ‘Bongbong’ Constantino ng Sarangani Province sa harap ng may ilang-daan kataong dumalo sa isinagawang 2014 Regional Nutrition Awarding Ceremony noong araw ng M’yerkules sa Koronadal City, kung saan muli na namang inuwi ng Municipal Nutrition Office sa pamumuno ng kabiyak nitong si Roselyn bilang MNO volunteer action officer, ang panibagong ‘Green-Banner’ award. (Isagani Palma – MALUNGON INFORMATION OFFICE).

The 10 ‘Kumainments’ – Sina Mayor Reynaldo F. Constantino at South Cotabato Gov. Daisy Avance-Fuentes sa isinagawang promosyon ng “Ten Kumainments” ng National Nutrition Council, sa gitna ng 2014 Regional Nutrition Awarding Ceremony noong nakaraang araw ng Miyerkules sa The Farm Convention Center, Carpenter Hill, Koronadal City. Sa naturang awarding ceremony ay muling nanalo ng ‘Green-Banner Award” ang bayan ng Malungon bilang Most Outstanding Municipality sa Sarangani at Rehiyon-12, samantalang napili naman bilang Most Outstanding province ang lalawigan ng South Cotabato. (Isagani Palma – MALUNGON INFORMATION OFFICE).

Endorsing the ’10 Kumainments’ – From left, Mayor Bong Constantino of Malungon town in Sarangani, DOH-12 dir. Teogenes F. Baluma, South Cotabato Gov. Daisy Avance Fuentes, NNC r-12 program coordinator Arceli Latonio and other top local gov’t officials pose for a memento beside a huge drawn ’10 Kumainments’ tablet amid the recently held 2014 Regional Nutrition Awarding Ceremony at the Farm Convention Center in Carperter Hill, Koronadal City. Malungon town bagged the prestigious ‘Green-Banner’ Award, both in the provincial and regional level, including the ‘Outstanding Barangay Nutrition Scholar Award’ in the provincial category during the said event. (Isagani Palma/ Mio-Malungon, Sarangani).

2014 RNAC awards - (from left) Abc president and Brgy. Chairman Edna Tuanzon, MNO voulunteer action officer Roselyn and husband, Mayor Reynaldo 'Bongbong' Constantino is flank by other municipal gov't nutritionists on Saturday's 2014 Regional Nutrition Awarding Ceremony at The Farm Convention Center in Carpenter Hill, Koronadal City. Atop the table are the garnered gifts and awards of the local nutrition office as being a consistent 'green-banner' holder of the 'Most Outstanding Municipality' award not only in Sarangani, but throughout the entire Central Mindanao Region. Brgy. Nagpan also bagged the 'most outstanding barangay' in the province award during the said activity. (Ipp/mio-Malungon, Sarangani).

MNO regional ‘Green-Banner’ Awardee – Malungon, Sarangani Mayor Reynaldo F. Constantino’s better half Roselyn, the Municipal Nutrition Office volunteer action officer receives another ‘Green-Banner’ award during the Wedenesday held 2014 Regional Nutrition Awarding Ceremony at the Farm Convention Center in Carpenter Hill, Koronadal City. See related story. (Isagani P. Palma – MALUNGON INFORMATION OFFICE).

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MALUNGON, Sarangani – Local nutritionists cheer for bagging a new cache of major awards in the Saturday held 2014 Regional Nutrition Awarding Ceremony at The Farm Convention Center in Carpenter Hill, Koronadal City. 

Officiated by no less DOH-12 dir. Dr. Teogenes F. Baluma, the Nat’l Nutrition Council’s program coordinator Arceli M. Latonio and South Cotabato Gov. Daisy Avance-Fuentes, the said gathering was attended by over a hundred government officials and nutrition workers from various towns, cities and provinces in Region-12.

The municipality’s nutrition Office under its volunteer nutrition action officer Roselyn Dadivas-Constantino, better half of Mayor Reynaldo ‘Bong’ Constantino, received the prestigious ‘Green Banner’ award after the municipality was chosen as an outstanding NNC town not only in this province, but throughout the entire Central Mindanao Region. 

“The search has been thoroughly evaluated by the city, provincial and regional evaluation teams during the monitoring and evaluation of the local level plan of implementation,” Latonio said. 

It can be recalled that in the past years, the local MNO became holder of the “Consistent Regional Outstanding Winner in Nutrition (CROWN),” and vied as the region’s official entry in the search of the National Nutrition Council’s (NNC) Hall of Fame Award in Malacanang, Manila. 

Aside, Brgy. Nagpan which is under the supervision of the town’s Association of Brgy. Captains (ABC) president Edna Tuanzon, also achieved the ‘Outstanding Barangay Nutrition Scholar’ award in the province, through its BNS named as certain Emma Y. Tabasondra. 

A strategy under the Philippine plan of action for nutrition that invokes training, development and supervision of volunteer workers or nutrition scholars, this search includes the precise deployment of a responsible Barangay Nutrition Staff (BNS) in each barangay who are being tasked to take the responsibility in monitoring the nutritional status of the vulnerable, and for delivering suitable nutrition services and other related activities to locals. 

Latonio explained that for this year, the chosen regional outstanding BNS received a trophy, token and a cash award of P16, 000 while the provincial and city outstanding BNS were given a certificate and a cash award of P4, 000 and P3, 000 cash, respectively. 

Baluma said despite the lucid indication of winning the fight against malnutrition, there is still that passionate need for everybody to unite and cooperate with each other in the search for new effective concept that will serve as instrumental guidelines toward the nutritional suitability for Filipinos. 

In a message, Mayor Reynaldo F. Constantino who was with the MNO to receive the awards, gave credit to the consistency of the weekly ‘Lingap sa Barangay’ program of the local government that had for the past years played vital rule in the delivery of basic services – “closer to the people.”

“Humbly, I will not cite all that we have done, but suffice it to say that since the start of my assumption to office in 2007, we had consistently gotten citations and awards yearly. To me these awards are just bonuses. For the most important are the services that are being delivered, and the impact of the programs to mark positive changes in the lives of my constituents,” he said.

Among the strategy that was utilized by the LGU in boosting up its nutrition program, is to incline its proper nutrition drive with appropriate health support and sanitation, backed by its sustainable flagship program in agriculture.

“In line, we implement our local ordinance on Maternal Neo-natal Child Health and Nutrition wherein a child is being taken cared of with the quality of maternal care since at womb. For I believe that with the safe delivery of a healthy child, malnutrition will soon be a minor problem in a well-sanitized community,” Constantino said.

He said side by side with this was the stern implementation of an ordinance on sanitation, which orders for the total abolition of open defecation, or the total application of the Zero Open Defecation (ZOD) program of the government.