Every July is Nutrition Month in the Philippines. The 4 Goducate Literacy Centers in Laguna jointly held a Nutrition Day event at the Goducate Training Center. The theme for this year’s Nutrition Month was Timbang iwasto sa tamang nutrisyon at ehersisyo (Proper weight through right nutrition and exercise). It was chosen to emphasize the problem of obesity among Filipinos.
The program began with a parade of the children wearing their costumes of different vegetables. Then Mrs. Liza Espanola, one of the teachers, shared with the parents how children achieve their correct weight through proper nutrition and proper physical exercises.
The literacy centers in Puy-puy and Mabacan contributed to the program by singing “Bahay Kubo” (a Filipino children’s folk song about various vegetable plants around a nipa hut), and the Sta.Cruz and Lalao centers danced to the song of “Makulay ang buhay sa sinabawang (colorful life with vegetable soup).
