India: New community refrigerator opens for poor, hungry
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MissionNewswire) Don Bosco Nerul, located in Mumbai, India, has installed a community refrigerator to provide food and snacks for those facing hunger and have nowhere else to turn. Salesian missionaries are calling this initiative Don Bosco Cares.
During the lockdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Don Bosco Nerul reached out to 25,000 families and 10,000 migrants who had been impacted. Many who were already in poverty faced hunger without having money to buy food. While the lockdown has ended, migrants and those living in poverty, including those living on the streets, are still not able to feed themselves.
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Published January 2, 2021, 4:24 PM
An urban vegetable garden established inside the St. John Don Bosco Parish compound in Tondo, Manila will be opened to the public for the first time Sunday, Jan. 3.
Under the “Buhay sa Gulay” (Life in Vegetables) project of the Department of Agrarian Reform’s (DAR), Secretary John Castriciones is inviting the public to join the “pick, harvest, and pay” activity in which customers will be allowed to go around the farm, pick grown vegetables themselves, and pay for their harvests.
Residents of Tondo have planted squash, upo, kangkong, spinach, mustard, and pechay in the vegetable garden.
Castriciones said an 8,000-square meter vacant football field was converted into an urban vegetable garden to plant varieties of vegetables to benefit families and residents of 17 barangays around the parish for the Buhay sa Gulay project that is being implemented by the DAR in partnership with the Don Bosco Parish, Department of Agriculture, and the