LIST: How To Help Frontliners And The Needy In This Time Of Crisis
Here are 11 causes you can support. We're all in this together
This post will be periodically updated as new information comes in.
Difficult times bring out the best in us, and as we move into an extension of the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ). A lot of businesses have been affected, including the food and beverage industry. And yet, in this time of crisis, we are deeply impressed at how quickly and selflessly restaurants and other food establishments have come together to provide support to frontliners and to poor communities in need.
As we enter into the second month of lockdown, efforts to sustain the fight against COVID-19 can become increasingly difficult. Quite frankly, our frontliners — and the people who are providing them with support — need all the help they can get.
We know that many of you want to help, but may not know how to. So we’ve put together this list of the groups and restaurants running community kitchens and other advocacies to help in the fight against coronavirus. We will be updating this directory regularly, so please keep checking back.
Help Our Frontliners
Help Our Frontliners
Covid19 Food Drive PH
Formerly The Enderun Community Drive, this group started in 2009 to help communities affected by Typhoon Ondoy. Students, alumni, and individuals from Enderun Colleges are now working to provide healthy food to marginalized communities, distributing meals from partner restaurants at P500 per meal pack (good for 10 persons). To help, contact Patch Bautista at +63 977 626 6452 or visit @covid19fooddriveph on Facebook
Photo Credit: @covid19fooddriveph
FoodTray2Go
FoodTray2Go still delivers its best-selling home-cooked meals straight to your doorstep, but they’re this online food shop is also using its platform to assist medical workers in and around Metro Manila by giving away free food. For donations, please message them on Instagram @foodtray2go or on Viber at 09177026395. Frontliners in need of goods may also reach them via their social media accounts.
Photo Credit: @foodtray2go
Frontline Feeders Philippines
Chefs, restaurant owners, and volunteers established Frontline Feeders Philippines to provide nourishing meals for our frontliners AKA our modern-day heroes. The group connects networks (from food establishments to hospitals), solicits funds for food supplies, coordinates logistics, and allocates food delivery to hospitals. So far, they have partnered with different individuals and restaurants like Mimi & Bros., Sarsa Kitchen+Bar, and Commune. Send a direct message to m.me/FrontlineFeedersPH to know how to donate cash. Restaurants, kitchen or commissary are also welcome to contribute food. Visit https://frontlinefeedersph.com/ or email havecoffee@commune.ph for more details. Best friends Monica Pantaleon and Isabel Louise started an online initiative in gratitude for the healthcare workers and other frontline employees, by giving them homecooked meals. For only P85, interested donors can pledge one nutritious and delicious meal for frontliners. If you’re a frontline worker in need of donations, you may reach out to them at frontlinersph@gmail.com with the subject “I’m a frontliner.” Gcash 09173077844
Photo Credit: Frontline Feeders Philippines
Max's Pledge a Plate
The Max Group, which includes Max, Yellow Cab, Pancake House, Krispy Kreme, Dencio's, and Jamba Juice runs a program that lets you pledge meals for health workers in different Philippine hospitals fighting the pandemic. You can even choose from their dishes, like Chicken Barbecue, Arroz ala Cubana, Kare-Kare, Lechon Sisig, and many more. Every P90 donation feeds one frontliner. For details, visit maxgroupdelivers.com/pledge
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McDo's Kindness Kitchen
McDonald’s Kindness Kitchen program produces 1,500 meals a day for frontliners. Their initial goal is to provide 50,000 meals, but as of April 3, they have served over 100,000 meals to frontliners and communities in need. If you’d like to help, visit rmhc.org.ph/donate
Photo Credit: McDonalds Ph
Frontliners PH
Best friends Monica Pantaleon and Isabel Louise started an online initiative in gratitude for the healthcare workers and other frontline employees, by giving them homecooked meals. For only P85, interested donors can pledge one nutritious and delicious meal for frontliners. If you’re a frontline worker in need of donations, you may reach out to them at frontlinersph@gmail.com with the subject “I’m a frontliner.” Gcash 09173077844
Photo Credit: Frontliners PH
RiceTop Fil-Asian Comfort Food
Help with a donation drive to support healthcare professionals during this crisis. For only P200, you can sponsor one meal for the medical workers of Ospital ng Makati, The Medical City, Philippine General Hospital, Lung Center of the Philippines, San Lazaro Hospital, Cainta Municipal Hospital, Marikina Valley Medical Center, and more. Please visit @RiceTopComfortFood on Facebook for donation guidelines.
Photo Credit: @RiceTopComfortFood
Salamat PH Healthcare Heroes
This volunteer group supports our medical and military frontliners by giving volunteer assistance, by providing nourishing meals to hundreds of healthcare workers and AFP troops in Metro Manila. Their partners include Franco’s Friends, nowheretogobutUP Foundation, Myron’s, and Gourmet Gypsy. To give assistance, visit @SalamatPHHealthcareHeroes for details.
Photo Credit: @SalamatPHHealthcareHeroes
The Standard Group of Restaurants
The company that brought us some of our favorite brands like Yabu, Elephant Grounds, and Ippudo, are running their own community kitchen, with special menus designed to keep frontliners’ health and spirits up. Healthcare workers from different hospitals in the metro received yummy pork buns from Ippudo, Yabu’s famous katsu sets, and rice bowls from Elephant Grounds. Please donate at P140 per meal. Visit @TheStandardGroupPH for details.
Photo Credit: @TheStandardGroupPH
Viking's
The company behind Vikings, The Alley, and Tong Yang have temporarily closed their restaurants in Luzon, but their kitchens are still open to prepare hearty meals for medical workers. They’ve already provided 58,474 (as of April 1) free food packs and meals to hospitals including the Fabella Hospital, Chinese General Hospital, San Lazaro Hospital, and to different PNP checkpoints in and around the Luzon region. To help, please call (02) 8845-4647, email vikingsmarketing@gmail.com. If you have Vikings Loyalty Card, you may also donate your rewards points at www.vikings.ph/donate
Photo Credit: Viking's
