SOME 58 “lighthouse” schools were put up by the International Institute for Rural Reconstruction (IIRR) in Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal and Quezon) to teach K-to-12 students gardening as a reliable solution to malnutrition that is prevalent among schoolchildren.

IIRR senior program advisor Julian Gonsalves said the lighthouse schools, through its Gardening and Nutrition Education with School-based Supplementary Feeding (Garnesupp), were proven a viable way to source food for the schools’ feeding program.

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