Filipinas Overcoming Hunger Essay

Filipinas Overcoming Hunger and Malnutrition through Education

“Education is the most important method used to change the world,” – Nelson Mandela

As a student of the University of the Philippines Cebu, the phrase “ang kabataan ang pag-asa ng bayan” is often used by professors and fellow ‘isko’ and ‘iska’ to inspire one another to do their best in their chosen field of expertise. Being a student with a tuition fee subsidized by the government, studying well and working hard to serve our country is what’s expected of us to do. We supposed to be the crème of the crème of the crop; therefore, we were expected to be the best and to help our nation improve.

Education is not the first priority of our country right now since, there is more money

Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”

The importance of education cannot be stressed enough. According to globalpartnership.org, education gives people critical skills and tools to help them better provide for themselves and their children. It helps people work better and can create opportunities for sustainable and viable economic growth now and in the future. It reduces mother and child mortality and helps improve health. And it encourages transparency, good governance, stability and helps fight against graft and corruption.

Published at the Inter Press Service, “Women in the Philippines at the Forefront of the Health Food Movement” by Diana Mendoza tackled on how Filipinas became active in the effort to fight hunger and malnutrition aiming to have good effects for the future generation.

Mendoza cited how women supported and implemented the movement and how they used different methods to try to achieve a long term goal—to eradicate

They also showed how ancient wisdom and guidance given by our elders to help mold our generation into healthy consumers by educating them to eat the right kinds and quantities of food. There were also discussions about modern inventions that are supposed to make us more efficient yet, is too ambiguous to tell if it really helps us become healthier.

The article was successful in addressing and informing the classes of society about the actions done by the women of our country. It was able to address all age groups and encouraged them to change their lifestyle to eat local and organic products and to start farming.

Their disapproval of the Genetically Modified Organisms was also emphasized and was taken into consideration. They made fair points and it’s better to eat food that we know are safe to eat than consume those that show mounting evidence that they pose dangers to human health.

The article is written in straight forward and well-defined manner. The facts are presented clearly and examples were given to fully comprehend what the article was