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Community Pantry: Givers and takers one against the virus (Part 2) 16.05.2021 - Metro Manila, Philippines - Erlie Lopez
FEATURE
All it took was one cart on a sidewalk filled with vegetables, fruits, rice, eggs, canned food, and other stuff to prevent or fight the onslaught of covid-19. And the scribbled message in Pilipino on a cardboard tucked on the adjacent lamppost translates to: “Take according to your need, Give according to your ability.”
From then, it looks like a seed has popped and quickly bloomed into thousands of street flowers. The Maginhawa Community Pantry set up by Ana Patricia Non in her neighborhood in Quezon City on April 14 has since inspired hundreds of similar food stalls in less than a week and over 6,000 nationwide in a month.