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“It doesn’t seem [like] we’re denting [hunger],” Gatchalian said in a television interview in response to a recent survey showing that an estimated three million Filipino families or 11.8% experienced involuntary hunger at least once in the past three months.
“Poverty is intergenerational – you cannot solve that overnight. But a poor family’s immediate need is to have something to eat. I want to bring back the food coupons or food stamps,” he added.“I may not be able to pull people out of poverty immediately, but I can solve their immediate need of trying to put food on the table,” he added.“We just have to make sure that the list is good. So that is our first priority, we have to make sure that the list is correct,” he said in a separate interview.
“Continue calibrating the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program and strengthening the government’s social protection initiatives, especially since one of the measures we undertake to address poverty is through the grants that we provide for the health needs of every household and education of our children,” Marcos said in his speech during the DSWD’s anniversary program.
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