Support Angat Buhay

Tomorrow's the day! It’s not too late to preorder your Original Glazed Krispy Kreme donuts. 🍩 We will have a LIMITED amount of donuts available for $15/dozen tomorrow from 9:30am to 12:30pm at the Bayanihan Community Centre. Please note that we are ONLY accepting e-transfers and cash payments. Thank you so much for your support!

Angat Buhay (Better Life) is a Philippine non-governmental organization. We are raising money for their nutrition and education programs and spreading more awareness about what Filipinos living in poverty experience. Angat Buhay has been providing feeding programs for many children living in communities that need them most through nutritious Mingo meals, an instant complimentary food made of rice, mongo (mung beans), and malunggay (moringa).

Desiree earns P700 ($14) per week which limits the amount and variety of meals her family receives. The food she cooks in the morning lasts until the evening. Desiree is worried that her youngest child, Chanel, is also malnourished. Through Save the Children, Chanel became part of the malnutrition treatment program and has since gained weight and become more energetic.
Video Credits: Save the Children

WATCH: How child malnutrition hurts families? We met Chanel, a malnourished 5-year-old girl. See how the fight against child malnutrition is shared by her family and the entire country.

The Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao has the highest prevalence of stunting in the Philippines. Stunting is the impaired growth and development that children experience from poor nutrition. Here is the story of Isnaira and her family's experience with malnutrition caused by the lack of medical services, nutrition education, and a variety of food sources.
Video Credits: UNICEF

Malnutrition in the Bangsamoro region Stunting and malnutrition pose a health and economic burden in the Bangsamoro region, where 1 in 2 children under 5 years old are stunted. Learn more: https:...

Poverty and lack of nutrition education are the leading causes of malnutrition in the Philippines and it is an issue that remains to be unresolved. Families and children living in more rural areas of the country are the ones struggling the most due to the lack of resources and support.

Video Credits: UNICEF

Fighting malnutrition in the Philippines | UNICEF Natural disasters, an overreliance on rice and low levels of breastfeeding have left Filipino children among the most malnourished in the region. A nutrition...

According to the report provided by UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Group, nearly two out of five stunted children in the world live in Southern Asia. More than half of all wasted children in the world live in Southern Asia. Overweight is a concern in almost all regions of the world but South-eastern Asia and Northern America are the only sub-regions which had a significant
increase in the number of overweight children since 2000.

What does malnutrition look like globally?

According to data provided by UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Group, 144.0 million children under 5 suffer from stunting, 47.0 million children under 5 were wasted of which 14.3 million were severely wasted, and 38.3 million were overweight.

Stunting is the impaired growth and development that children experience from poor nutrition.
Overweight is the abnormal or excessive fat accumulations that pose a health risk.
Wasting involves significant and rapid weight loss and failure to gain weight.

Food insecurity is inadequate or insecure access to food due to financial constraints. According to the latest data from Statistics Canada's Canadian Income Survey, 5.8 million Canadians, including 1.4 million children, lived in food-insecure households in 2021.

In the 2020 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World Report, the Philippines recorded the most number of food insecure people in Southeast Asia from 2017 to 2019, with 59 million Filipinos suffering from a moderate to severe lack of consistent access to food.

What do you know about malnutrition in the Philippines? Our team is here to share information about what it is and how we can reduce its prevalence and share ways we can support families and children. Malnutrition has significant long-term effects on children and we need to ensure that they and their families are aware of them.

For everyone following our page that is not able to purchase a box of Krispy Kreme donuts or is not in Victoria, we have setup a GoFundMe account in which you can donate and help us give nutritious meals to the children in poverty-stricken areas of the Philippines.

Here is the link:

Support Angat Buhay, organized by Patricia Mae Du Hi everyone, we are 2nd-year students from Camosun College’s Community, Family and Child Studies … Patricia Mae Du needs your support for Support Angat Buhay

Hi everyone, we are 2nd-year students from Camosun College’s Community, Family and Child Studies program. For one of our courses this semester, we are taking action and bringing more awareness to what many individuals living in poverty experience, and how the lack of action currently being taken by the government, leaves the most vulnerable at risk. Our focus will be on an ongoing social justice issue in the Philippines, which is children experiencing malnutrition due to poverty, food insecurity, and lack of public services. Many children from the Philippines do not have access to nutritious food, potable water, and basic hygiene products. Alongside that, we also want to be able to connect with our roots, give back to our home country, the Philippines, and support families who need it the most back home.

Our goal is to provide resources, news articles, and information that is researched and fact-based about Angat Buhay and the work they are doing surrounding nutrition and education as well as what is occurring in the Philippines regarding malnutrition and their response to it. We will also be using this platform to advertise for the Krispy Kreme fundraiser we are hosting. The money raised from this event will be donated to Angat Buhay and will go towards their nutrition and education programs.

If you have any questions about our work or our fundraiser, please email us at [email protected].