Filipinos, in general, love to eat. We have our meals
three times a day, and sometimes even
eat snacks in between. Our love for food requires easy access to our every craving to be a necessity. This makes
foodpanda, the world’s leading online food ordering and delivery platform, a
relevant mobile app for most of us today.
Unfortunately, there’s still a fraction of our population
who cannot even afford to have a decent meal once a day. According to the
country’s National Report from UNICEF in 2010, we have the highest prevalence
of food inadequacy among Asia’s ‘tiger cub economies’ from 2005 to 2012.
Poverty has long been rampant in some parts of the country and is now also
being considered to be the root of other major societal issues. This is what
motivates the team behind the non-profit, multi-national organization, Rise
Against Hunger, to team up with local groups and companies who view hunger the
same way and aim to alleviate the Philippines of this crippling problem.
Volunteers posing and pausing for a break during the Rise
Against Hunger Meal Packaging Activity at the Department of Health Manila
Convention Hall
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foodpanda PH employees packing around 2,000 meals for the
indigenous communities in Candelaria, Zambales in collaboration with Rise
Against Hunger Philippines
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RAH Executive Director Jomar Fleras said that their personal
mission is to end hunger in our lifetime by providing food and life-saving aid
to the world's most vulnerable and by creating a global commitment to mobilize
the necessary resources. foodpanda Philippines shares the same aspiration and
pledges to donate a portion of every order or total food bill to support the
cause. The partnership between these two global organizations started in 2015
and has gone a long way ever since helping and feeding the chosen beneficiaries
who are mostly indigenous families.
Proceeds of the program are usually being spent to buy
primary goods and necessities which are
then being packed and delivered by volunteers to remote barangays and
provinces nationwide. The meal packaging program has an assembly process
involving the combination of rice, soy, dehydrated vegetables, and 23 essential
vitamins and minerals into meal packets. Having a shelf life of two years, the
food is stored easily and has to be transported quickly.
This year’s meal packaging event is hosted by the Department
of Health Manila Head Office and gathered almost 2,000 meal packs for the
indigenous communities in Candelaria, Zambales. “We believe that there is no
small or grand gesture when it comes to helping out the community. Our
collective effort will definitely go a long way, creating ripples of change,
and making a big impact,” says Iacopo Rovere, CEO of foodpanda Philippines.
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