Some 400 internally displaced children seeking refuge at Datu Gumbay High School in Datu Piang, Maguimdanao were served with a food feeding program initiated by non-governmental organizations.
Datu Gumbay High School hase been covereted into an evacuation center since August last year, thus depriving the children of education.
Pasasambao Health Services, Incorporated (Pihsi) and Bangsamoro Center for Just Peace (BCJP) spearheaded the food feeding program yesterday as part of their continuing monitoring on the condition of the children’s health, psychology and education since their deplorable case displacements in August 2008.
“We served complete meal for the children who had been staying in the severe-conditioned evacuation centers, particularly in Maguindanao,” told an organizer to Luwaran.Com/Net.
He said that the clear effects on education, emotion / psycholgy and health of the children brought about by the resumption of hostilities between the government soldiers and fighters of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) are “unimaginable.”
Renewed government military operations brandishing the entire might of the Philippine armed forces, paramilitaries and armed militias and civilians against the MILF in Maguindanao started on August 20, 2008.
The total number of internally displaced persons due to these armed confrontation had reached to a high of nearly 600,000, wherein more than half of this are children.
Pihsi and BCJP had called on concerned agencies to intensify regular health / medical, vitamin supllementation and sanitation services for the children, even as they appealed to stop using schools as evacuation centers so as not to hamper the education for the children.
Both NGOs expressed anxious on the dire consequences of the continuing militray campaign, atrocities and violence especially on the psyche of the innocent children.
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