UN-WORLD FOOD TO ADD P2-M NUTRITION SUPPORT TO COMVAL

Friday 26th of April 2013
NABUNTURAN, Compostela Valley Province April 26 -- Adding to the various interventions that the United Nations World Food Program (UNWFP) is extending to Compostela Valley Province is the P2-Million support to the Provincial Nutrition Program with Governor Arturo T. Uy as the Provincial Nutrition Council Chair. A memorandum of agreement (MOA) signing on a Tripartite Agreement was successfully done at the Capitol on April 22 with Governor Uy representing the PLGU; UN WFP Mindanao Operation Head Masanobo Horie representing UN WFP Country Director Aomo Asaka Nyangara and; DOH Region XI Director Dr. Abdullah B. Dumama Jr. for the Department o...
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