Residents of Barangay Addition Hills exchange their recycled trash for vegetables and food packs as part of the barangay community pantry. In exchange for the food items, the barangay requires residents to bring recyclable trash consisting of snack and candy wrappers, food containers, and other similar items.
Residents of Barangay Addition Hills exchange their recycled trash for vegetables and food packs as part of the barangay community pantry. In exchange for the food items, the barangay requires residents to bring recyclable trash consisting of snack and candy wrappers, food containers, and other similar items.
Residents of Barangay Addition Hills exchange their recycled trash for vegetables and food packs as part of the barangay community pantry. In exchange for the food items, the barangay requires residents to bring recyclable trash consisting of snack and candy wrappers, food containers, and other similar items.
Residents of Barangay Addition Hills exchange their recycled trash for vegetables and food packs as part of the barangay community pantry. In exchange for the food items, the barangay requires residents to bring recyclable trash consisting of snack and candy wrappers, food containers, and other similar items.
Residents of Barangay Addition Hills exchange their recycled trash for vegetables and food packs as part of the barangay community pantry. In exchange for the food items, the barangay requires residents to bring recyclable trash consisting of snack and candy wrappers, food containers, and other similar items.
Residents of Barangay Addition Hills exchange their recycled trash for vegetables and food packs as part of the barangay community pantry. In exchange for the food items, the barangay requires residents to bring recyclable trash consisting of snack and candy wrappers, food containers, and other similar items.
Residents of Barangay Addition Hills exchange their recycled trash for vegetables and food packs as part of the barangay community pantry. In exchange for the food items, the barangay requires residents to bring recyclable trash consisting of snack and candy wrappers, food containers, and other similar items.
Since young entrepreneur Ana Patricia Non began to open her Maginhawa Community Pantry in Diliman, Quezon City, over 300 community pantries have sprouted all over Metro Manila and perhaps even beyond.
When it first began, the Maginhawa Community Pantry consisted only mostly of basic food items like vegetables, eggs and, “tsitserya” snacks. Reminiscent of the Filipino tradition of “bayanihan,” the fundamental concept behind the initiative was to simply “take only what you need and give what you can spare.”
Non’s initiative have since inspired other well-meaning individuals and groups to set up their own community pantries in their areas. Several permutations have since emerged and there are even some that have focused on non-food items such as one in Marikina that specializes in basic footwear.
In Mandaluyong, however, one community pantry merits a second look. There, in Barangay Addition Hills, in particular, authorities are encouraging people to “pay” for their desired food items such as squash or calabasa and other vegetables, not with money but instead recyclable materials or things that are considered as “basura” in the household.
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