Healthy
Body to Any Calamity
As we all know, the month of July is
the annual celebration for the Nutrition Month in the Philippines. And the
theme for the 2014 Nutrition Month Celebration is “Kalamidad Paghandaan: Gutom
at Malnutrisyon Agapan”. But some people
tend to still ask, why we need to celebrate it. So what really is the reason?
What are the aim/goals of it?
According to PH ACCESS, there are
three goals of celebrating it. First, to promote intervention to address
nutritional needs in emergencies and disaster. Second, to mobilize responders
particularly the local nutritional clusters and stakeholders to address gaps in
nutrition in emergencies response from national barangay levels. And last, to
increase awareness among families and individuals on coping and resiliency
strategies to prevent malnutrition and worsening nutritional slams in times of
emergencies and disasters. All of the aims or goals are related to our health
and to disasters. That’s why they come up with the theme, “Kalamidad Paghandaan:
Gutom at Malnutrisyon Agapan”. The theme is very appropriate because as we all
know, our country have experienced already many calamities or disasters that
causes deaths to many people here in the Philippines.
The theme reminds us to become
healthy for any calamity that we will face in the future. Let us gave
importance in celebrating the Nutrition month. Because being healthy means
being ready to any calamity.
