{"id":13144,"date":"2014-06-02T16:19:22","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T08:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=13144"},"modified":"2014-06-02T16:19:32","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T08:19:32","slug":"govt-still-addressing-malnutrition-through-cct-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/02\/govt-still-addressing-malnutrition-through-cct-palace\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov\u2019t still addressing malnutrition through CCT &#8212; Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13193\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13193\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/malnutrition-food-poverty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13193\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/malnutrition-food-poverty.jpg\" alt=\"ShutterStock image\" width=\"1000\" height=\"957\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/malnutrition-food-poverty.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/malnutrition-food-poverty-300x287.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13193\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ShutterStock image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Malacanang on Sunday assured that the government was strengthening its programs to combat malnutrition among children.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential Communications Operations Office Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr. said that these programs are being implemented by the Department of Health (DOH) and the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).<\/p>\n<p>Coloma further said that reducing malnutrition among children was part of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs, after all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the aspect of malnutrition, that is one of the primary reasons why we are conducting a comprehensive conditional cash transfer (CCT) program,\u201d the PCOO chief said.<\/p>\n<p>The CCT program, also known as Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), aims at improving the conditions of poor people in terms of health and nutrition, education and community participation.<\/p>\n<p>According to the DSWD, it is the national government\u2019s flagship program which works to reduce poverty reduction and to bring social development.<\/p>\n<p>Under the program, grants are made available to extremely poor households so that their health, nutrition and education, particularly children aged 0 to 14 years old can be improved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Malacanang on Sunday assured that the government was strengthening its programs to combat malnutrition among children. Presidential Communications &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":13193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,95],"tags":[4464,978,4463],"class_list":["post-13144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","category-news-ph","tag-cct","tag-malacanang","tag-malnutrition","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}