Duterte’s Kitchen Now Open To Feed Starving Street Children

The Partido Demokratikong Pilipino - Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban) launched yesterday “Duterte’s Kitchen,” a feeding program for the poor, both adults and children.

“It was the brainchild of the Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez after their meeting,” PDP-Laban National Executive Director Glen Badon said.

The feeding program, which will be managed by Dexter Baracael, aims to complement the ruling party’s Social Services and Economic Development Program and President Duterte’s advocacy to feed the poor.

Furthermore, Duterte’s Kitchen is located along EDSA near the Metro Rail Transit terminal in Cubao, between Farmers Plaza and the Social Security System building, and is feeding between 50 to 70 street children daily during breakfast, lunch and dinner.

“Before, we only provide food for the street children, but now even hungry adults are also being attended to,” Badon said.

According to him, Duterte’s Kitchen mostly serves free lugaw (rice porridge) and champorado (chocolate rice porridge) for breakfast, rice meal with vegetables, fish, adobong manok and baboy during lunch and dinner.

“Staff members are volunteers who believe on the advocacy of extending help to the underprivileged people and bring hope and inspiration to them,” Badon said.

“The food being served also depends on the donors. If we receive donated vegetables, chicken or pork meat, then we serve these to the street children and even to the elders,” Badon added.

Moreover, Badon said Duterte’s Kitchen also serves as a family center to the street children, where volunteers teach them to read and explain the value of education.

“It provides street children the means to uplift their lives. We have programs that will equip them with knowledge like teaching them to read. We are family to them,” he said.

Other Duterte’s Kitchens will also be set up in other parts of the country soon to complement other programs of the Department of Social Welfare and Development and aimed at helping the less privileged.

In addition, Badon expressed high hopes that Duterte’s Kitchen will soon become a comprehensive temporary shelter that will provide emergency medical services and feeding as well as basic education through the help of volunteers and donors.

Source: Philstar