Gawad Kalinga (GK) has a sports youth leadership program called SipaG. We have around 2,000 playing kids all over the country. The SipaG Community Soup Kitchen will provide nutritious meals to young kids within and other marginalized neighborhood communities. Our Soup Kitchen is communal in nature, which means that we provide the ingredients needed, the parents will do the preparation, cooking and distribution of the food.We are serving 16 communities and reached out to 2,000+ kids.
Since the pandemic began, the Philippine government has imposed a lockdown in the whole country that restricted mobility for 5 months and most of the kids' parents lost their jobs. Good thing, there is food subsidy from the local government and the Gawad Kalinga's relief packs distribution for families from under-served communities that are vulnerable to hunger. In 16 communities we are serving, more than 2,000 kids experience hunger and this project aims to provide them nutritious hot soup.
SipaG Community Soup kitchen provides nutrition through its hot soup filled with nutritious ingredients. Our Soup Kitchen is communal in nature, which means that we provide the ingredients needed, the parents will do the preparation, cooking and distribution of the food as an act of volunteerism since their kids will be the ones who will benefit from it. In trying times, we still display the spirit of "bayanihan," a Filipino value of helping one another.
The project will feed 100 kids per community or around 2,000 kids all throughout, which via one simple bowl of soup each, we address their need for proper nutrition and the improvement of their health status.
