World Pandesal Day celebrated today

DESPITE the pandemic crisis, #WorldPandesalDay is again being celebrated today (Oct. 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-yearold 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.