Aleli Dalapus

Aleli is 38 years old, married, and blessed with 2 children who are 15 and 8 years old. Her husband is a farmer, and she works as a Barangay Nutrition Scholar. She identifies malnourished children through a community survey referred to as the Operation Timbang. This survey involves weighing and measuring the length or height of all preschoolers and interviewing mothers to determine how the child is cared for, the resources available in the family, and their participation in nutrition and related interventions. And also monitors the growth of all 0-23 month-old children to monitor if the children are reaching their growth targets according to the accepted child growth standard. The BNS also does a quarterly follow-up weighing of children 24-59 months old to monitor any growth faltering and determine any need for counselling of parents and/or caregivers or referral to appropriate service providers. She would like to work as a domestic helper in Singapore, as their income is not enough to send their children to school. She is very good at taking care of newborns and young children. She knows how to bathe, change clothes, change diapers, prepare milk and feed, and put the baby to sleep. She knows how to sterilize milk bottles too. She knows how to cook. She cooks mainly Filipino dishes like adobo, sinigang, mixed vegetables, kare-kare, egg omelette, paksiw, bulalo, and she is able to follow recipes.