Award-winning actress Dolly de Leon and her companions in Ladies Who Launch are gearing up for a roaming art exhibit featuring painted and designed shoe molds collected from closed-down factories in Marikina City.
Published May 20, 2021, 10:42 AM
The apology of the head of the police’s Human Rights Affairs Office to community pantry organizers is a proof that the Philippine National Police (PNP) has no policy of harassing them amid allegations of police intimidation before that prompted some of them to stop their operation.
PNP chief Gen. Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar reiterated that the organization has never sanctioned a profiling of community pantry organizers who have been selflessly offering help to those in need and fostering the Bayanihan spirit.
The Chief of the PNP-HRAO, Police Brig. Gen. Vincent Calanoga, said in a congressional hearing last Wednesday that the allegations on police profiling are already under investigation and being acted upon. He later apologized to the community pantry organizers who felt threatened or intimidated by the actions of some police officers.
In celebration of International Nurses Day, St. Luke's Medical Center (SLMC) paid tribute to all of its nurses by putting up its own version of community pantry in both hospitals in Bonifacio Global City and Quezon City.
Reso commending Ana Patricia Non, other community pantry volunteers filed in Senate
Published May 10, 2021 12:26pm A resolution commending Maginhawa community pantry organizer Ana Patricia Non and volunteers of thousands of similar initiative all over the country for igniting the bayanihan spirit of Filipinos amid the COVID-19 pandemic was filed in the Senate Monday. Under Senate Resolution 714 filed by Senator Grade Poe, the spirited moment of selflessness amid the pandemic must be encouraged and aided by the government to ensure the implementation of health and safety protocols instead of closing it down or subjecting it to red-tagging. It added the more than 6,700 community pantries now in existence across the country show that one’s act of generosity can spark a movement and set in motion a phenomenon of giving and sharing