Tambuling Batangas Publication April 04-10, 2018 Issue | Page 5

OPINYON
Abril 04-10, 2018
Lord Jesus is risen
By John Henry Dodson
AT T H E c e n t e r o f
all religions is the
promise of eternal life,
with such variations
of
the
theme
as
being
reincarnated,
literally rising from
the dead or living
in the spirit world
after surrendering the
c o r p o r e a l b o d y.

An underlying
precept
universal
to most concepts of
eternal life is reward
and its anti-thesis,
punishment.

I f t h e r e ’s n o
afterlife and no carrot-
and-stick
scenario,
then
mankind
can
naturally be expected
to descend to total
chaos since everyone
will try to live the
life right here, right
now — goodness be
damned.
Under
the
Indian
karmic system, if you
are good you progress
f r o m , s a y, b e i n g a l i c e
to becoming a mouse
and then a dog and
then hopefully a man.
If you’re a man and
Annual M & E of nutrition program
in NCR begins
QUEZON
CITY
–
The
annual
Monitoring
and
Evaluation of the
Local Level Plan
Implementation
(MELLPI) of the
nutrition programs
of
the
different
local
government
units (LGUs) in the
National
Capital
Region (NCR) has
started
T u e s d a y,
March 27.
A c c o r d i n g
to
National
Nutrition Council-
NCR
Regional
Nutrition Program
C o o r d i n a t o r
M i l a g r o s E l i s a V.
Federizo, MELLPI
is the monitoring
and
evaluation
scheme
of
the
Philippine
Plan
of
Action
for
Nutrition
( P PA N )
which is conducted
every
year
by
an
inter-agency
Regional Nutrition
Evaluation
Te a m
(RNET) in all cities
and municipality in
NCR.
“During
the
MELLPI visit, the
RNET
assesses
the
efficiency
and
effectiveness
of
the
local
nutrition
program
implementation
through desk review
and interview with
the
members
of
the local nutrition
c o m m i t t e e s
( L N C s ) . Va l i d a t i o n
visits are also done
in randomly chosen
barangays to check
if indeed, nutrition
programs
are
in
place and families
of
underweight
children
are
reached,” Federizo
explained.
Based
on
the data gathered
during the previous
monitoring
and
evaluation,
NCR
is beset with both
undernutrition
and over nutrition
that
inlcude
u n d e r w e i g h t ,
stunting,
wasting,
overweight
and
o b e s i t y.
Micronutrient
malnutrition
also
affects the region
among
them,
iron
deficiency
anemia,
vitamin
A deficiency and
iodine
deficiency
d i s o r d e r.

Ta g u i g
C i t y,
a contender for the
2 n d Ye a r C o n s i s t e n t
R e g i o n a l
O u t s t a n d i n g
Wi n n e r i n N u t r i t i o n
(CROWN)
award
was validated first
to prepare the city
for
the
national
validation.

P a s i g C i t y, t h e
LGU who received
the Green Banner
Aw a r d l a s t y e a r w a s
validated next.

MELLPI will
resume after Holy
We e k a n d w i l l e n d
on the 2nd week of
M a y.
R N E T- N C R
is
composed
of
focal
persons
from the regional
offices in NCR of
the
Department
of Health (DOH),
Department
of
Education (DepEd),
Department
of
you lived a wicked
life then you may
next be born to be a
pig and justly so.
The
Bible
tells us that Jesus
literally
brought
Lazarus
from
the
dead, notwithstanding
that he was already
days entombed and,
c o n s e q u e n t l y, a l r e a d y
stinking.
Jesus
himself
rose
from
the dead three days
after being crucified,
his side pierced with
a spear by a Roman
centurion, some 2,000
years ago.
He
made
a
believer
out
of
“doubting
Thomas”
but only after daring
the latter to put his
hand on his stab
wound.
C h r i s t i a n s ,
s p e c i f i c a l l y
Catholics,
observe
the Lenten Season by reliving the passion
of
Jesus,
starting
with Palm Sunday and
then progressing to
G o o d F r i d a y ’s d a r k
moments
with
the
death of the Messiah
at the strike of 3 p.m.
Black
Saturday
is
like being in limbo
for Catholics with
the elders forbidding
merrymaking
since
“patay ang Dios” only
to erupt in vivacious
celebration
with
Jesus triumphing over
death to complete his
mission to save man
from sin.
M i s s i o n
accomplished, Jesus
rose to the heavens
with the promise that
like Himself, eternal
life awaits us all
a n d t h a t i t ’s j u s t a
question of whether
it’d be in heaven or in
hell. Happy Easter to
all.
Social
We l f a r e
&
Development
( D S W D ) ,
Department
of
the
Interior
&
Local Government
(DILG), Department
of
Agriculture
(DA),
Department
of
Labor
&
E m p l o y m e n t
( D O L E ) ,
C o m m i s s i o n
of
Population
( P O P C O M ) ,
P h i l l i p p i n e
Information Agency
(PIA), Metro Manila
D e v e l o p m e n t
A u t h o r i t y
(MMDA), Nutrition
Foundation
of
the
Philippines,
Nutrition
Center
of the Philippines,
H o p e f o r t h e Yo u t h
Foundation, Grace
Family
Helper
Project, Save the
Children, ABS-CBN
Bantay Bata 163,
and GMA Kapuso
Foundation.
MELLPI
is
a major program
of the NNC and is
being conducted in
cooperation
with
other
government
agencies
and
non-government
organizations. This
activity
aims
to
monitor and validate
the
efficiency
and
effectiveness
of
the
nutrition
and
nutrition
related
activities
implemented at the
local level.

In conjunction
with the MELLPI, the
NNC
also
evaluates
the
performance of the
Barangay Nutrition
Scholars
(BNS)
-
barangay-based
volunteers
tasked
to coordinate the
delivery of basic
nutrition and related
services
in
their
respective area of
assignments. Both
the
MELLPI
and
BNS evaluation are
institutionalized
activities
since
1979 of the national
and local nutrition
committees.

The
MELLPI
and BNS Evaluation
culminate
with
the recognition of
LGUs
and
BNSs
with
exemplary
performance
in
nutrition
program
m a n a g e m e n t
and
delivery
of
nutrition services.
Recognition comes
in
the
form
of
incentives/awards
such as the Green
B a n n e r Aw a r d - f o r
the LGU with the
highest
MELLPI
score;
Consistent
R e g i o n a l
O u t s t a n d i n g
Wi n n e r i n N u t r i t i o n
(CROWN)-
for
the
LGU
who
c o n s i s t e n t l y
maintains a high
score, the highest
award, the Nutrition
H o n o r Aw a r d ( N H A )
and the National
Outstanding
BNS.
(EPC/LFB/PIA-
NCR)