Despite the pandemic crisis, #WorldPandesalDay is again being celebrated on October 16 as a civic and cultural event by 81-year-old Kamuning Bakery Café of Judge Jimenez Street corner K-1st Street, Brgy. Kamuning, Quezon City. Instead of its annual tradition of giving away 70,000 pandesal, cheese, sardines and other foods the whole day to the urban poor at the bakery, plus free medical/dental/optical missions, owner Wilson Lee Flores said Kamuning Bakery Cafe on Oct. 16 shall be donating breads and foods to orphanages and diverse children’s shelters all over Metro Manila. Among these children’s shelters include the 242-year-old Hospicio de San Jose, White Cross, Child Haus, Asilo de San Vicente de Paul, House of Refuge Foundation, etc. World Pandesal Day seeks to honor the humble yet great Filipino bread pandesal, also to highlight the need to address socio-economic problems of hunger and poverty.
Messages of support for the #WorldPandesalDay came from various leaders led by President Rodrigo R. Duterte, Senator Grace Poe, Senator Sonny Angara, Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte and others. Among Kamuning Bakery Café’s partners in this annual philanthropic and cultural project include Philippine Foremost Milling, San Miguel Mills, Mondelez Philippines, Pagcor, Mega Sardines and Caltex Iba Malhacan Road in Meycauayan Exit.
Despite the economic crisis, Kamuning Bakery Café is now renovating a beautiful, old house at No. 434 El Grande Avenue, BF Homes, Parañaque City as its new branch and commissary to serve its many customers in south of Metro Manila. During the lockdown crisis, Kamuning Bakery Café has also donated a new public schoolbuilding to Barangay Dinalaoan Elementary School in Calasiao, Pangasinan in cooperation with Federation of Filipino Chinese Chambers of Commerce & Industry, Inc. (FFCCCII). Kamuning Bakery Café has also donated public schoolbuildings to other economically-disadvantaged rural regions, like to Sta. Rosa Elementary School in historic seaside Balangiga, Eastern Samar province and to Villa Bacolor Elementary School in Tarlac, Tarlac province.
Kamuning Bakery Café also sponsors unique cultural projects such as the annual World Poetry Day on March 21, the non-partisan “Pandesal Forum” where newsmakers dialogue with media and intellectuals, poetry readings, book launchings, art exhibits and the March 7 poetry & music night fundraising event for medical needs of award-winning writer Jose “Pete” F. Lacaba which was attended by national artists Dr. Bienvenido Lumbera and Bencab, many top musicians Noel Cabangon, Cookie Chua, Hazel Faith, etc.
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