As the cold holiday breeze whispers in December, the shopping frenzy that takes over malls will soon create piles of trash that stay for ages in landfills. This is aggravated by the lack of waste management schemes at the barangay level, especially after Christmas, when public trash bins look like...
LET FOOD BE THY MEDICINE Jetro’s mood-healing and natural homeopathic medicine alternative dishes concocted for Robert I’ve been down with the flu. So this is what it feels like to be sick. The last time I had the flu was way before the pandemic. My family and I have been lucky. We have not...
Aspiring vice president Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan went back to the place where he grew up and the district that first elected him to a public office to seek the same support come May 9. Senator Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan (Photo from Team Kiko) Pangilinan was back to his childhood place to...
From a bamboo cart on Maginhawa Street, Patricia Non has inspired many Filipinos to open community pantries and share what they can to feed the poor. The woman behind this remarkable initiative is only 26 years old, a graduate of UP College of Fine Arts, and an entrepreneur running a small...
Taking inspiration from the Maginhawa community pantry, members of Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) in Antipolo City in Rizal have created their own version of community pantry with a greater cause of going zero-waste. The community pantry, dubbed as “Zero-Waste community pantry,” was packed with...
Rolando de la Cruz, a 67-year-old balut vendor, died the other day while waiting with hundreds who lined up to answer actress Angel Locsin’s birthday invitation to the community pantry she had set up in Barangay Holy Spirit, Quezon City. As early as 3 a.m., a long queue had formed; stubs were...
Check out its pilot issue While our second take on enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) produced social media jokes about rekindling our love for Dalgona coffee, ube pandesal, and many other 2020 food trends , the rewind and repeat certainly brought a lot of disappointment to many Filipino...
Aside from battling the existing health crisis, millions of Filipinos continue to suffer from hunger and food insecurity caused by increasing food prices and unemployment rates. Despite all the hardships brought about by the pandemic, Filipinos do not forget to spread acts of kindness. The latest...
A resident of Maginhawa expresses her happiness after getting vegetables from the community pantry. (Noel Pabalate) A day after 26-year-old Ann Patricia Non installed the community pantry at 96 Maginhawa St., Diliman, Quezon City, donations such as rice, vegetables, eggs, canned goods, biscuits,...
