DepEd re-tools school-based feeding program

IMUS CITY, Cavite - The Department of Education (DepEd) CALABARZON regional office will convene provincial and district school officials, school-based feeding coordinators and canteen managers for their region-wide technical re-tooling activities from Dec. 11 to 12 at the Great Eastern Hotel in Quezon City.

DepEd IVA Regional Director Diosdado M. San Antonio has issued the memorandum which spelled out the activity aimed at ‘downloading’ technical know-how on the implementation of the school-based feeding program (SBFP) and canteen implementation.

San Antonio underscored the need to ensure that school officials are technically equipped to implement the agency’s school-based program and ensure that current procedures, including the school’s canteen management,  adhere to DepEd guidelines and standards.

The forum also serves as a venue where concerned school officials and personnel could discuss best practices, tackle problems and issues concerning their functions and create team and monitoring and evaluation (M & E) tool for the seamless and standardized program implementation.

Expected attendees include provincial and city schools district supervisors and school heads from CALABARZON (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal and Quezon) area.

The participants also include Division School-Based Feeding Program coordinators and the school canteen managers in elementary and secondary schools.

The SBFP, headed by the DepEd’s Bureau of Learner Support Services-School Health Divisions (BLSS-SHD), will address the problem of under-nutrition among public school children to improve their classroom attendance and performance.

The program also targets to improve the nutritional status by at least 70 percent at the end of at least 120 feeding days and improve the children’s health and nutritional values and behavior.


The program has served more than 1.8 million learners out of the more than 1.9 million Severely Wasted (SW) and Wasted (W) beneficiaries from Kindergarten to Grade 6 nationwide. (PNA)