Meat processing firm CDO-Foodsphre Inc. has taken the initiative to ease the malnutrition problem in the country by launching a supplemental feeding program for poor and underweight children in Valenzuela City.

The "Gabay Buhay" feeding program, under the Odyssey Foundations Inc., has helped bring down the number of malnourished children in three sites in Barangay Paso de Blas, Valenzuela City, since it started in June 2005, according to social worker Eleonor Erqguiza. "At present, our feeding program covers 116 malnourished children with ages three to six years old in Paso de Blas."