With a freshly secured $3 million in funding from the Asian Development Bank, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is set to launch in July the pilot run of Walang Gutom 2027, a food stamp program meant to give the country's poorest population 'access to nutritious, delicious, and affordable food.' Some one million families are expected to benefit from the program—the first in the Philippines and patterned after similar long-running programs in countries such as the United States—putting the administration a major step closer to achieving its ambitious target of eradicating hunger by the time President Marcos steps down from office in 2028.

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