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The document discusses the issue of "pagpag", which is scavenging for and consuming discarded food from trash heaps. This has become a means of survival for some poor families in Manila amid the food insecurity caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. While pagpag provides calories to combat hunger, it can negatively impact health due to lack of nutrition and risk of food-borne illness. The document recommends interventions like social programs to ensure food security, health education, reducing food waste, and job training to address the root causes driving communities to rely on pagpag.

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PHC 2 Case Analysis

The document discusses the issue of "pagpag", which is scavenging for and consuming discarded food from trash heaps. This has become a means of survival for some poor families in Manila amid the food insecurity caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. While pagpag provides calories to combat hunger, it can negatively impact health due to lack of nutrition and risk of food-borne illness. The document recommends interventions like social programs to ensure food security, health education, reducing food waste, and job training to address the root causes driving communities to rely on pagpag.

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Reporter's Notebook:

Tirang pagkain sa
basurahan, laman-tiyan ng
ilang Pilipino sa gitna ng
DIVINA GRACIA CIELO
CHERRY ANN CONEJOS
pandemya
ANNABIE ESPINOSA
APRIL ROSE RODRIGUEZ
CASE ANALYSIS
INTROD UC T I O N &
N D O F TH E
BACKROU
PROBLEM
The COVID-19 pandemic is having a significant impact not only
on healthcare systems, but also on global markets, commerce,
travel, and social controls. Food security, especially for those
living in poverty, is one of the social controls that has a direct
influence these days. The pandemic is now threatening the entire
food chain, and collective action is needed to ensure that
economies work properly. Maintaining safe eating and behavioral
habits during the COVID-19 pandemic is critical for fighting viral
infections and maintaining mental stability and well-being.
Food is a consumable or potable material made up of nourishing and
nutritive components such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, essential
minerals, and vitamins that maintain life, produce energy, and provide
growth, maintenance, and health to the body. However, many people are
now facing food insecurity because they do not have enough or adequate
physical, social or economic access to food which at present resulted to
make the “pagpag” or food waste as potential source of food that has
knowingly discarded or destroyed from food establishements. For poor
urban households, food waste is a meaningful way to alleviate hunger while
still providing a source of revenue, although a small one like around Php
100 to Php 250.
Food discarded by various food institutions has become more socially
acceptable as an alternative food supply by Metro Manila's urban deprived
populations. The extreme poverty visible in the Philippines has compelled
these populations to seek alternative means of survival. To deal with harsh
living conditions, poor urban families find unsanitary scavenged chicken
bits, expired foods, and so on that have been cooked again and covered in
plastic bags. For them, three meals a day is equal to good health and
wellness. At the moment, the key priority in the living conditions of
impoverished urban families is to satisfy their hunger. When deciding
whether to consume, nutritional adequacy, choice of ingredients, and
avoidance of food-borne illnesses were given less weight.
Overall, the living conditions of these urban deprived societies,
together with a health-hazardous diet of "pagpag," it place a
person at risk of poor health. The society of these urban deprived
areas has also had a major impact on their preferences. Because
of a lack of intervention and enforcement, people with these kind
of culture and environment became unaware of what can be
done. After all, residing in deep poverty, food becomes a way of
survival rather than nourishment. And, the Covid-19 pandemic
made the situation worse that resulted for harder living.
S ER V A B L E
CASE OB
M S I N T H E
PROBLE
CO M M U N I T Y
The following problems have great impact in human health and
everyday survival;
Lack of employment opportunities during pandemic
Lack of food security
Availability of “pagpag” as food source
Lack of health awareness and education.
“Pagpag” is being naturally accustomed in poor urban
communities
Acceptability of poor health choices in their environment
I N T ER V E NT I ON S
1."Government should make a program that can help to those
unemployed people to help them to earn money ( small business

2. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (NAP), address


barriers to accessing healthy food.

3.Giving vitamins and other essentials that we need in this


pandemic like (mask , alcohol , and etc .)
-Collaboration of DOH, DSWD, DOLE, LGUs, and NGOs to
maintain food, health, and employment security admist of
pandemic.

- Health education program will be executed by medical


practitioners or knowledgeable people.Giving awareness about
health preacautions in this pandemic that we need to follow .
O M M EN DAT I ON S
R EC
INFORMATION EDUCATION CAMPAIGN (IEC) ABOUT
PROPER NUTRITION
• Providing nutrition education is one way to promote a healthy food
choices and a proper lifestyle for the improvement on the quality of
life among the people.
• Nutrition education is an essential component in improving
dietaryhabits and food choices, in order to reverse the under
nutrition andimprove the nutritional diagnosis. Poor dietary habits
and lack ofphysical activity can be the main reason for poor
nutritional status
• The ultimate goal is to produce nutritionally literate decision
makers who are motivated, knowledgeable, skilled, and willing
to choose proper nutrition alternatives. To be effective, nutrition
education must communicate clear messages with a specific
behavior-change goal for target groups .
STRICT IMPLEMENTATION ON POLICIES OF SANITATION
• government’s leniency on regulations regarding food safety
and sanitation thrives the business of “pagpag”. The creation of
the Food Safety Law of 2013 has not hindered “pagpag” from
being sold, especially in depressed urban areas where they are
most prominent. The lack of action and implementation makes
the communities in the urban poor area ignorant of what should
be done. After all, living in extreme poverty makes food a
means of survival, rather than means for nourishment.
• Having a proper sanitation can result in the availability of
valuable materials to reuse. This can save money while
potentially creating new jobs and business opportunities.
Reducing, reusing and recycling your waste is important for the
environment, but it can also be profitable. It decreases the
amount of waste for disposal, saves space in landfills, and
conserves natural resources.
LESSEN FOOD WASTE
• food waste is a big problem, posing a challenge to food security
and environmental sustainability.
• There are more than billion of people , of which about a billion are
currently starving. Yet, we annually lose and waste 1.3 billion tons
of food, enough to feed 3 billion people.
• Experts said food production by then must grow 70 percent to meet
the growing demand. There’s a need to seriously start reducing
food waste now if we hope to eradicate hunger and starvation
• One of the top contributors to food wastage is the lack of
planning on the part of consumers. Sometimes people buy lots
of food without making plans on when and how the food will be
prepared for consumption. Then they fail to remember using or
preparing the food they buy. On the other hand, food is also
wasted because people cook or prepare too much. If there’s
too much food than is needed, most of the time the excess
food will go to waste.
• consumer education for behavior change, which, it believes, is
key to decreasing food losses and waste.
• Such amount of waste has far-reaching impact on society
because food that could have helped feed poor families instead
went to landfills.
• Food waste management is our responsibility for we benefit
and suffer from it in radical ways. Education and awareness
across all communities that reducing food waste is
environmentally important as it keeps food out of landfills.
PROVISION OF ALTERNATIVE ECONOMIC LIVELIHOOD
PROGRAM FOR FINANCIAL
SUPPORT
• The Philippines has the highest unemployment rate among
members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
(Asean), according to a report of the International Labor
Organization (ILO) published in 2014. The Philippines
registered an unemployment rate of 7.3 percent, according to
the Global Employment Trends.
• Because of this, lack of financial income or poverty is rampant
in our country. This is the foremost reason for the consumption
of pagpag since they are cheaper and yet can able to satisfy
their hunger but providing trainings on different livelihood
programs like weaving baskets, planting, craft making,and
others to the people can help them overcome poverty and help
aid to their financial needs.
CONCL U S I O NS
According to them, the measure of good health and nutrition relies
to the quantity of meals they have in a day. As long as the sustain
at least 3 meals, she perceives her family to be healthy.The
consumption of "pagpag" can be linked to its underlying factors;
such as, the community's socioeconomic profile, the acceptability
of poor health choices in their environment, and the leniency of
the government regarding foods safety laws and regulation.
-In reality, pagpag has become a futile solution for the Philippines’
hunger crisis. A slight glimmer of hope for the poorest of the poor
that still carries great risks—including death, as there are some
leftovers that are sprayed with disinfectants before disposing of.

Pagpag is an essential survival food in the poorest slums of Metro


Manila. No matter if it is already spoiled, the empty stomach will
still appreciate it. In fact, many scavengers consider pagpag as
comfort food, much better than the gulay at asin they are
accustomed to eat everyday.
-Indeed, living in the slums is like living in the jungle; the only
difference is that there is already cooked food to be hunted in the
mountains of trash. In this case, a scavenger needs all the
survival techniques he has learned: jockeying for position, digging,
clawing, shaking, and eventually developing the taste for
discarded food. It does not matter. It is still food anyway.
It may be easy for most of us to dismiss pagpag as “kababuyan”
o “kadiri”- two powerful Tagalog words that have no equal in the
English language. But we have to remember that thousands of
people rely on the pagpag for their daily survival. The pagpag
exists not because there are desperate people who feed on them,
but because poverty has forced them to do so. The sight of people
feeding on the trash may be disturbing and even disgusting to
many of us, but once we look at the problem from the perspective
of the poor, then the pagpag becomes manna from heaven.
THANK YOU 💕

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