Food not Bombs

On Sunday Frithjof and I helped the activistas from Davao in organizing their Food not Bombs – Free Food Made with Love – Pagkaon Katungud. It is a kind of people's kitchen that they organize already for one year, once or twice a month. On Saturday the people from KINAIYAHAN UNAHON, the alternative resource and learning centre in Davao (the local AC), went to the market to ask the vendors for free food that they were planning to cook for the next day. So on Sunday I joined them at 10H cutting the vegetables, cooking the food and preparing to take to the city centre. We made a soup, loempias and noodles. Then, around 16H, we brought it to Rizal Park, where a lot of people gather, especially on Sunday for mass, the big second hand market (for sure clothes and shoes from charity organisation from the EU or the USA were sold there) or just to suroysuroy. There we installed us in front of the town hall and started to give away the food to street children and street vendors (most of them kids around 8 years old). It was a big success because in a short time we gave away all the food we cooked earlier. I think it is a very nice action they do, because there are a lot of very young children begging for money or trying to sell small snacks or other things to the people walking their or coming out of the mass. Also in general, here in the Philippines, the difference between the (filthy) rich and the poor is huge!

The AC

Cutting the food

Cooking

Giving food, not bombs...

I also met the youngest punks I ever saw in my life. While the people from the AC are around my age or older, later in the city we cached up with the other activistas which were mostly kids from around 15 years old and, in contrast to my friends from the AC, they were dressed very explicitly. They are called children of dew, because the dwell the streets until dawn...

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