School-Based Feeding Program "Project Dwarf": An Opportunity to Minimize Severely and Wasted Grade Five Learners of Mohon Elementary School

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Good health and nutrition are not only essential inputs but also important outcomes of basic education of good quality. On the other hand, poor health and malnutrition are said to be an important underlying factors for low school enrolment, absenteeism, poor classroom performance as well as early school dropout. In these sense, children, of school age especially, must be healthy and well-nourished in order to fully participate in education and gain its maximum benefits.

Meanwhile, programs to achieve good health and nutrition at school age are therefore essential to enhance the learning and educational outcomes of all children.Ensuring that children are healthy and able to learn is an essential component of an effective education system that is why Mohon Elementary School, as one big school with more numbers of wasted and severely wasted learners, utilized its resources and fed about 80-100 daily to augment their nutrient deficiency

METHODS

Numerous techniques were used to conduct this research. Some of those were assessment of the nutritional level of the target customers, finding their needs and wants and food preferences.The respondents of this research were all the 15 grade six wasted and severely wasted learners coming from the two sections of grade six in Mohon Elementary School.

This is a descriptive research which utilized the unstructured interview, PTA meeting, and home visitations and focused group discussion in data gathering. The results of aforementioned methods were administered and interpreted to identify the perceived causes, and needs and wants of grade six severely wasted and wasted.

Meanwhile, the unstructured interview and home visitations were just surveys, somewhat like follow-up questions to the pupils who despite being fed in previous year still belong to the lower nutritional status. Questions included in the interview scheduled have undergone review and analysis, by the school principal.

RESULTS

The data reveals that seven out of 10 or 70% severely wasted pupils have improved and become normal. It apparently exceeds the 60% target