A year on, community- and women-led efforts that responded to the Filipino poor’s needs continued to face harassment.
Day: September 4, 2021
Community kitchens feed the hungry during lockdown
Mimi Doringo of Kadamay said these community kitchens were a testament to the poor pandemic response of the government. They also coupled it with calls for better response as seen in Sitio San Roque.
Community kitchens serve warm meals, show govt negligence
While waiting for the government’s stingy and slow aid, they have to activate their survival mode by pooling their resources to help each other. All these, the people have to do amid militaristic community quarantines. And as they say when it rains it pours, calamities from typhoons, earthquakes, farm infestation, among others, did not stop afflicting communities.