Udenna helps deliver farm goods

FILIPINO tycoon Dennis Uy’s Udenna group of companies provided assistance to Batangas farmers who struggled to sell their produce in light of the lockdown because of the coronavirus pandemic.

WorkLink Services Inc.– a subsidiary of Chelsea Logistics and Infrastructure Holdings Corp., Phoenix Petroleum and Udenna Foundation through its UCARE or CommUnity Care program, together with social enterprise Agricultural System International Inc. (Agrea) – completed a Batangas-to-Malabon “SagipSaka” run to deliver 6,000 kilos of fresh food packs from farmers to the city of Malabon.

The program originated from te Move Food Initiative and Project Buy-ANIhan with Global Shapers Manila Hub, MasaHealthy and the Department of Agriculture’s (DA) KadiwaAniatKita program, according to Cherrie Atilano, founding farmer/president and chief executive officer of Agrea and United Nations Ambassador for Scaling Up Nutrition Movement.

Agrea is a social entrepreneurial company that aims to help eradicate poverty for farming and fishing families and help establish food security in the country.

“The initiative was in grave danger of not pushing through, and all the food packs going to waste because of the enhanced community quarantine that affected the entire Luzon. There was no one willing to deliver the food packs to Malabon so I went online to find anyone or any company willing,” Atilano said.

At least 1,500 farmers from San Jose, Batangas were called by the City of Malabon through Agrea to prepare food packs for its residents

Agrea coordinated with the Udenna Foundation to mobilize companies under its group, led by Worklink of Chelsea Logistics and Phoenix Petroleum to deliver the packs.