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A  blockbuster  is a fabulous   movie  that audiences line-up to see the first weekend it is released.  I remember going to the mall and seeing long lines in the ticket booth and I would tell my kids, “Now! That my children is a blockbuster!” But during the time of...

On April 14, 2021, 26-year-old Ana Patricia Non, a furniture designer, took out a bamboo cart and installed two signs on a tree in front of a shuttered food park along Maginhawa street in Quezon City.  The first sign read: Maginhawa Community Pantry.  The second sign pleaded: “ Magbigay ayon sa...

The Bayanihan spirit that started in Maginhawa St. Quezon City, initiated by Ann Patricia Non, created a ripple effect in less than a week. Thus, it came without a surprise why community pantries or bodega ng bayan sprouted like mushrooms nationwide. But while many organizers set up tables on their...

Apart from aiding Filipinos with their daily meal needs, community pantries also help in providing awareness What started out as a humble gesture along Maginhawa St., Quezon City became an epidemic of kindness that spread like wildfire in the country. Community pantry is among the ultimate symbols...

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,...