Manila, May 6 -- Sitting as chair of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Zero Hunger (IATF-ZH), the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has led the nourishment of over 1.5 million children nationwide with its Supplementary Feeding Program (SFP) for the school year 2023-2024.

Assistant Secretary for Disaster Response Management Group (DRMG) Irene Dumlao said the DSWD has served 1,526,261 children enrolled in Child Development Centers (CDCs) and 33,198 children under Supervised Neighborhood Play (SNP) in 1,169 implementing local government units (LGUs) as of March 30.

"As mandated by the Marcos administration, through the recently signed Memorandum Circular No. 47 which calls for the intensified support for the government's ant...