Share a Little, Earn a Lot

     I didn’t realize that I can still give an ample time of my life to help others. It’s just that I have a hectic schedule as a student and a housewife at the same time. But I wonder how I can still help others who are in need. So when our Hon. Congressman Miro Quimbo has this feeding program project, I decided to at least help my fellow neighbors to prepare nutritious food for the children who are malnourished in our compound.

    It started last April 2015, with a purpose of alleviating malnutrition in all of the area of District 2 in Marikina. The office of the Congressman allotted a fund of eight thousand pesos per month in every homeowner’s association in District 2. And every week the coordinator in our compound will get the supply of five kilos of pork and 5 kilos of chicken and a variety of vegetables in the barangay Marikina Heights. Then, selected mothers were assigned every day to prepare the food and serve to the children. The underweight children were selected to receive the program until they have gain the ideal body weight. 

      Every Sunday, together with the mothers, we prepare nutritious food. Last Sunday, we prepared fried squash balls (grated squash, with ground pork and flour). We made it to a point that the food we would serve was enticing to the kids so that they would have an appetite to eat a lot at the same time enjoy the food. Although I could only help in preparing and cooking the food, it means a lot to me because in that small way of helping others I could say to myself that I’m also helping these little ones to get healthy. I wish that this project of Cong. Quimbo will last to the extent that there’s no malnourished child anymore. Because I believe that if a child is malnourished or he/she doesn’t eat the right food, this will affect his school, behavior and even his entire life.

      I also realized that I learned so much in this feeding program. It opened my eyes to the needs of the society nowadays. And what do they need? They need assistance especially the children who are one of the vulnerable citizens in the society. The government should double, triple even quadruple their efforts to support the young ones. They’re too innocent and too young to experience hardships like these, like food deprivation and undernourishment. And they don’t deserve it. However, at least there is project like this that somehow will help them regain their health and alleviate their hunger.