Project LUSOG (Linking Underweight Students with Opportunities)

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

San Felix Elementary School strives to fulfill its duties to groom each new generation into becoming upright citizens of the country.it also recognizes the fact that in order to increase the students' chances that San Felix Elementary School has been trying to overcome. For the past years, there has been a notable increase in the number of malnourished and underweight students from 25 to 28 and from 28 to38. Therefore, the school has devised a new plan to tackle this pressing problem in the form of Project LUSOG (“Linking the Underweight Students with Opportunities for Growth ")

METHODS

The method used in the study is the percentage method. The researchers got the voice of the customers through the affinity diagram. The basis of the study is the result of the Nutritional Status of the pupils taken from the School Coordinator.

RESULTS

It was obvious that the different reasons why pupils who are under SBFP program were still the VOC were due to their wrong attitude of eating nutritious foods particularly the vegetable. The secondary was the ignorance of their parents in preparing nutritious food. 13 out of 38 or 34% of the severely wasted pupils who underwent Project LUSOG (Linking Underweight Students with Opportunities for Growth) became of normal health which indicates that the desired objective of Team GANA (Gain Adequate Nutritious Aid) is partially achieved.

DISCUSSIONS

San Felix CIP Team GANA (Gathering Adequate Nutritious Aid) conducted a survey on why the level of performance of pupils/ students in academics did not increase as it is expected. The team found out that the main cause of these is those pupils/students who still belong to the underweight level has resulted in the BMI (Body Mass Index). In spite of the feeding program initiated by the school through canteen and SBFP, there were still students who did not improve their BMI.