http://www.marketmanila.com A food blog that talks about food, produce, recipes, ingredients, restaurants and markets here in the Philippines and around the globe. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:41:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/stepped-up-feeding-program-in-taguig http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/stepped-up-feeding-program-in-taguig#comments Sun, 11 Oct 2009 01:22:00 +0000 Marketman http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=8694 Thanks to the generous donations of marketmanila.com readers, family and friends, we have collected enough funds for an additional 8,000 hot meals for undernourished school children at the Taguig Elementary School. While some of these children and families were seriously affected by the recent floods, not all of them are "under water" so to speak. But the massive dislocation of hundreds of thousands of people, the loss of income, the rising prices of produce due to storms up North, all mean that these kids, many of them more than 30% below their normal body weights, have eaten less over the past couple of weeks, and worse, with schools closed for over a week, even our supplementary feeding could not continue. But classes came back on stream last Wednesday and we have expanded the capacity to 2-3 times the number of meals we used to provide. Now, we will be able to do some 600-800 meals a week. And I was at the school several days last week to ensure that the kids were getting the meals you all have sponsored for them...]]> http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/stepped-up-feeding-program-in-taguig/feed 6 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/donations-received-so-far http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/donations-received-so-far#comments Wed, 30 Sep 2009 07:38:13 +0000 Marketman http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=8497 this post, and donations are already accumulating with Ted in the U.S., and bettyq in Canada, in addition to pledges from family and friends here and abroad. I just checked with the account at BDO and was amazed to find that some folks had already sent their generous contributions... Here is a summary of remittances received as of early today into the BDO account: ]]> http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/donations-received-so-far/feed 22 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/lets-mobilize-thousands-of-meals http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/lets-mobilize-thousands-of-meals#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2009 04:17:49 +0000 Marketman http://www.marketmanila.com/?p=8416 The next step is to seriously increase the delivery of hot nutritious meals under the already existing Marketmanila.com reader sponsored feeding programs in Taguig. All schools are still officially closed at this point, but I have just minutes ago reached our contacts at the Taguig public school we have been helping to ensure that when schools re-open on Thursday, we are able to offer daily feeding programs (up from 3x weekly) and if possible, to double or triple the number of children who can benefit from this effort. It is here that I appeal for help from Marketmanila readers located all over the world...]]> http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/lets-mobilize-thousands-of-meals/feed 43 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/the-flash-floods-in-metro-manila-yesterday-were-horrific http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/the-flash-floods-in-metro-manila-yesterday-were-horrific#comments Sun, 27 Sep 2009 11:04:36 +0000 Marketman http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/the-flash-floods-in-metro-manila-yesterday-were-horrific link here, to read about it and see several photos. If you would like to help, MLQ3 provides several avenues for you to pursue. I do recall the floods that came with Typhoon Yoling which hit in 1972, and yesterday's floods have been the worst the city has experienced in the last 37 years... ]]> http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/the-flash-floods-in-metro-manila-yesterday-were-horrific/feed 26 http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/this-mornings-visit-to-the-taguig-feeding-program http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/this-mornings-visit-to-the-taguig-feeding-program#comments Mon, 10 Aug 2009 05:01:49 +0000 Marketman http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/this-mornings-visit-to-the-taguig-feeding-program The most poignant lines from this morning's visit to the Tenement Elementary School Feeding Program sponsored by Marketmanila.com and its many generous readers: "We ask them to finish every grain of rice on their plates as this is a gift from God. They aren't used to doing that at home. (Why? I asked?) They leave food on their plates, because their moms' tend to eat last, and eat only what the kids have not taken for themselves."]]> http://www.marketmanila.com/archives/this-mornings-visit-to-the-taguig-feeding-program/feed 28