The Local Government Unit of Cabatuan headed by Mayor Charlton L. Uy represented by SB Jasmin L. Miano welcomed officials from the Department of Social Welfare and Development Regional Office 02 thru the Municipal Social Welfare and Development Office headed by Mr. Guiller J. Artates for the implementation of the 𝐖𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐠 𝐆𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐦 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦 (𝐖𝐆𝐏) 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐚𝐬 𝐅𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐦𝐩 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐆𝐏 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐎𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟔𝟖 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬.

This program of the DSWD aims to address hunger, malnutrition, and poverty while enhancing the well-being of the beneficiaries; The WALANG GUTOM 2027: Food provision through Strategic Transfer and Alternative Measures Program (Food STAMP) is one of the new DSWD Flagship Programs to decrease incidence of involuntary hunger experienced by low-income households and make them productive citizens of the country. Through a whole-of-nation approach, the program aims to provide monetary-based assistance in the form of an Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) card that will be loaded with food credits amounting to Php 3,000 to purchase a select list of food commodities from partner merchant store/s.