19 Dec, 2011
The recent storm that ravaged parts of Northern Mindanao and cities such as Cagayan de Oro and Iligan City have taken a tremendous toll on life and property. It’s an incredibly harsh natural disaster, and to hit the week before Christmas makes this particularly difficult to understand. If I were in better…
22 Jul, 2011
Six thousand meals for undernourished public school children at the Tenement Elementary School! That was the extremely generous gift made possible by Mamou’s wonderful owners, manager’s and staff of Mamou who donated the entire proceeds of yesterday’s 4th year anniversary sales and service charges! Amazing. And I think Malou and Oye…
21 Jul, 2011
It’s Mamou’s 4th anniversary, and they are celebrating by donating all of their revenue and service charge today to the marketmanila.com feeding programs at the Tenement School in Taguig, Metro Manila. So if you’d like to help, all you have to do is sit down for a great meal today (lunch or dinner)…
18 Jul, 2011
Mamou has been the single largest donor to Marketmanila’s feeding programs for undernourished school children during the past four years. Every year, on their anniversary, the restaurant has donated the ENTIRE proceeds (net of VAT) for a day to charity. Even more amazing, all their staff have likewise donated their entire service charge…
06 Apr, 2011
It’s hard to imagine that we have just completed the fourth CONSECUTIVE and UNINTERRUPTED year of marketmanila.com feeding programs for undernourished public school children at a school in Taguig and another school in Cebu. I have lost count of the total number of meals provided, but it is probably between 140,000-150,000 complete meals….
22 Jul, 2010
In just one day of frenetic activity, Mamou has managed to raise the equivalent of over 8,500 full meals for the feeding program at the Tenement Elementary School in Taguig! THAT IS SIMPLY AMAZING. A rather full lunch time crowd turned into a jampacked first seating in the evening, followed by another…
20 Jul, 2010
It started with a simple idea — a desire to help undernourished public school children — and marketmanila.com readers have responded with such incredible warmth and generosity. From that little spark of an idea some 3 years ago, the marketmanila.com feeding program has raised in excess of PHP1.5 million and provided some 75,000+…
26 Jan, 2010
Just before last Christmas, a good friend let on that there was a fabulous new (at least in Makati) source of cheese and other ingredients that I must go and see. Egads. Not 24 hours had passed and I was in their warehouse, stunned by the stuff on offer, amazed by the…