ILOILO City – This city’s Uswag Community Kitchen is back.
First launched in March last year a week after the metropolis was placed under enhanced community quarantine (ECQ), to feed frontliners and economically displaced people, the initiative has been revived. The metro is currently under a modified MECQ).
“We continue to take care of our people’s health. We have restored our Uswag Community Kitchen to provide food for our frontliners (like policemen manning checkpoints),” said Mayor Jerry Treñas.
The kitchen will also feed coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients.
“We will have a kitchen patrol,” said Treñas.
Last year, community kitchens were set up in 204 daycare centers and 37 barangay halls. Then ran for some three months and prepared 1,903,036 packed meals.
This year, the community kitchen served its first meal – pochero and apan-apan – on June 5. Chicken adobo and hard-boiled egg were served on its second day yesterday.
One hundred police personnel, five community kitchen personnel, 15 staff for the mentally ill, and five dormers received free food./PN
