One person. It started with one person, Ana Non of Maginhawa St, Quezon City, Philippines. She set up tables on her sidewalk. She placed some eggs, some
vegetables and fruit. She placed a cardboard sign that read: “Share what you can. Get what you need for the day.”
What Ana did ballooned into community pantries across the country. Sprouting like mushrooms from Luzon to Mindanao, community pantries became a movement.
People came: needy persons, hungry persons, especially the poor who have lost their livelihood—a sure,unmistakable sign of widespread hunger stalking the land!
What Ana did was a miracle! Like the story of Jesus who fed the 5,000. Initially, the disciples asked Jesus to send them away. Instead, Jesus said that they feed them. How could they feed that many people, they
complained!
The disciples’ located a boy with five barley loaves and two fishes. The boy’s five barley loaves and two fishes fed five thousand people and with leftovers!
May we appeal to your heart and invite you to participate in this miracle happening in our beloved Philippines TODAY?
Don’t forget the boy in Jesus’ story! Don’t forget Ana of Maginhawa St in Quezon City! YOU can be like them too!
You can make a check to Philippine Jesuit Foundation. On the memo line, write Tanging Yaman Foundation Community Pantries or simply, TYF Community Pantries. Send to Philippine Jesuit Foundation,
PO Box 312, New York, NY 10028.
By credit card, use https://www.phjesuits.rg/pjf/share.php and click Give
online. Click Apostolate Fund and in the comment box: TYF Community Pantries.
By Zelle, please use pjf@phjesuits.org. In the comment section, add TYF-Community Pantries as beneficiary and your own email address (for acknowledgment).
We have no doubt that God’s hand is moving in ways beyond what we can humanly comprehend, fathom and do. It is a miracle, wonderful to behold, isn’t it?
