LIST: These groups are organizing community kitchens amid Habagat, STS Crising
Amid heavy rains and severe floods brought about by the southwest monsoon, or habagat, and severe tropical storm Crising, several groups have taken it upon themselves to organize community kitchens to help those affected by the inclement weather.
Ana Patricia Non, who is known to have led the community pantry movement in the Philippines in 2021, shared on Facebook that they have currently set up 36 kitchens in different parts of Manila and surrounding areas.
She also implored others to contact the organizers for anyone willing to volunteer.
"Sa ngayon po mayroon po tayong 36 kitchens. Inaantay lang po natin ang final na listahan sa Pasig, Marikina at iba pang areas," Non said.
Pwede po tayo magpadala ng tulong dito, maaari din po natin sila i-contact kung gusto po natin mag-volunteer. Hiwalay na din po ang contact para direct na po sa kanila ang help natin. Ingat po sa lahat! Bukod po sa hot meals priority po natin ang safety," she added.
The details of the community kitchens are as follows:
- Bulacan
- Organizer: Charley Francisco
- Number of kitchens: 3
- Area/s: Macaiban Bridge, Sta. Maria, Kamatisan
- GCash Number: 09168764657
- Name of GCash: Cristina Francisco
- Rizal
- Organizer: Evans Garcia
- Number of Kitchens: 15 as of 5:00 p.m.
- Area/s: Taytay, Cainta, Antipolo, Baras
- GCash Number: 09214452699
- Name of GCash: Evans Joy Garcia
- Quezon City
- Organizer: Quezon City Community Pantries
- Number of Kitchens: 3
- Area/s: San Vicente, Payatas, Krus na Ligas
- GCash Number: 09765517408
- Name of GCash: Ana Patricia Non
- Pasig
- Organizer: Khing Macaranas
- Number of Kitchens: 5 as of 4:00 p.m.
- Area/s: Pasig
- GCash Number: 09951717096
- Name of GCash: Lemmuelle M / Khing M
- Manila
- Organizer: Rona Castro
- Number of Kitchens: 3 as of 6:45 p.m.
- Area/s: Sampaloc, San Andres, Bgy 895 Sta. Ana
- GCash Number: 09566555109
- Name of GCash: Rona Castro
- Parañaque Hub
- Organizer: Alexandra Marcelo Jimenez
- Number of Kitchens: 4 as of 7:15 p.m.
- Areas: Palanyag, Valley 2, Coastal, Canaynay
- GCash Number: 09274706242
- Name of GCash: Jan Heinrich Jimenez
- Marikina
- Organizer: Abby Tan
- Number of Kitchens: 5 as of 8:15 p.m.
- Area/s: Tumana, Malanday, Santo Niño
- GCash Number: 09266950299
- Name of GCash: Abegail Tan
Waya Araos-Wijangco, who runs a well-known restaurant called Gypsy Baguio by Chef Waya, also announced that she is set to cook meals for communities in Pasig and Marikina and asked for donors, volunteer cooks, and more.
"We have some Benguet veggies still available. We need donors so we can purchase them all, along with rice from Rizal and Nueva Ecija, and send them tomorrow to Trining's Kitchen Stories in Marikina, where Chef Jayson Gaspar Maulit and I will cook them into meals for beleaguered communities in Pasig and Marikina," she said.
"Please send me a private message so we can coordinate. We need volunteer cooks and preps and packers too! Raise your hand please. Every bit of help you can extend is important and valuable.You can drop off donations at Trinings Kitchen Stories, Gil Fernando Avenue, Marikina," she added.
Araos-Wijangco detailed that they need rice, proteins such as chicken, pork, and beef, condiments, cooking oil, big cauldron, serving spoons, high-pressure stoves, and cleaning supplies.
Meanwhile, Anakbayan is opening a soup kitchen to provide food and necessary supplies to those affected. You can sponsor one hot bowl of soup to residents of Tondo, Manila amid the inclement weather by donating P20 via GCash to 09764752275 (Sh****e An**** C.).
The group is also accepting in-kind donations such as ready-to-eat food.
Want to help hungry families in Quezon City? You can sponsor a hot meal for evacuees for P25 through the Maginhawa Food Community. The meals will be distributed to 23,000 evacuees at several evacuation areas in Quezon City via the QC government and Angat Buhay.
Donations are accepted via GCash (09267570908 - Ricardo Louis Flores) and UnionBank (0024 8000 8016 - Maginhawa Food Community Inc.).
For July 20 to July 24, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said that although Crising will be outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility, the southwest monsoon or habagat will continue to affect the country. It will bring occasional rains to the western sections of Luzon and Visayas.
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