The Partido Demokratikong Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban) yesterday launched “Duterte’s Kitchen,” a feeding program meant to provide meals to the poorest of the poor on the streets of Cubao.
The project was the brainchild of Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez, and was supported by other PDP-Laban members including Senate President Aquilino Pimentel III, Energy Sec. Alfonso Cusi, The Philippine Star reports.
According to the report, Duterte’s kitchen “aims to complement the ruling party’s Social Services and Economic Development Program and Duterte’s advocacy to feed the poor.”
Strategically located along EDSA near the Metro Rail Transit terminal in Cubao, the kitchen is currently feeding between 50 to 70 street children daily during breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
What’s on the menu? Lugaw and champorado (chocolate-flavored porridge) for breakfast, rice meal with vegetables, fish, adobong manok and baboy during lunch and dinner.
“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,” said PDP-Laban national executive director Glen Badon.
Based on the Duterte’s Kitchen Facebook page, it has been serving street children since Oct 2016, but it has recently opened its doors to hungy adults too.
More than just a meal center, it also serves as a family center for the street children. There are reading, writing and music classes.
“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,” Badon said.
Duterte’s Kitchen will also be set up in other parts of the country.
