COTABATO CITY (December 19, 2025) — Two more groups of malnourished Moro children received rice and other essential provisions from the community service team of a member of the Bangsamoro parliament during relief missions in two predominantly-Moro towns on Monday, December 15.

Municipal officials in Datu Montawal in Maguindanao del Sur and in the newly-established Old Kaabacan town in the Bangsamoro Special Geographic Area in Cotabato province in Region 12 told reporters on Wednesday, December 17, that the distribution of food rations to parents of the unhealthy, malnourished children was part of the humanitarian missions of the office in the 80-seat parliament of the physician ophthalmologist Kadil Sinolinding, Jr.

The regional lawmaker Sinolinding is also serving as minister of the Ministry of Health-Bagsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao in concurrent capacity.

Jimmy Matalam Montawal, chairman of Barangay Tungol in Datu Montawal, said 18 malnourished children from across villages under his jurisdiction benefitted from the outreach activity of the community service team from Sinolinding’s office last Monday.

The relief supplies were received by the parents of the 18 children, in the presence of barangay officials and rural health workers in Tungol.

“We shall help the office of Health Minister Sinolinding monitor the health of malnourished children in our municipality to hasten their efforts of helping them become healthy,” Montawal said.

In Old Kaabacan, the team from Sinolinding’s office distributed rice and other food supplies to parents of 79 malnourished children, according to barangay officials and the nutritionist in the town’s Rural Health Unit, Aharrah Tambak.

The Old Kaabacan town is not too distant from Montawal, where villagers rely mainly on farming and fishing in rivers and swamps that connect to the nearby 220,000 hectare Ligawasan Delta.

The continuing campaign of Sinolinding’s office against malnutrition among children in the eight Bangsamoro towns in the Bangsamoro Special Geographic Area and in the adjoining Montawal and Pagalungan towns in Maguindanao del Sur is supported by BARMM’s chief minister, Abdulrauf Macacua.