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Support for Community · 2020

Noche Buena, and Media Noche after it

Sixty families in Barangay Poblacion West and East were carried through both midnight feasts — Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve — on baskets bought from Muñoz stores.

Families
60
Barangays
Poblacion West and Poblacion East
Meals covered
Noche Buena and Media Noche
A masked woman sits alone on a wooden church pew with two green-wrapped baskets tied with red ribbon on the bench beside her.
A recipient on the pew with her two baskets — one for Noche Buena, one for Media Noche.

What happened

Noche Buena is the meal a Filipino family sits down to at midnight on Christmas Eve. Media Noche is the same table a week later, at midnight on New Year's Eve. Between them they are the two meals the whole year is built around.

Masked people sit spaced along the church pews, each with green-wrapped baskets tied with red ribbon on the floor beside them.
Spaced along the pews, each with their baskets beside them.
People stand well apart across the tiled floor of a church, the altar lit behind them, a wrapped basket on the floor at each person's feet.
Handed out at a distance, in the December of the lockdowns.

Adopt-A-Family covered sixty families for both — thirty in Barangay Poblacion West and thirty in Poblacion East — with baskets of rice, corned beef, coffee, bread and other staples. Every item was bought from a store in Muñoz, so the town's own businesses gained from the giving too. MUSA did it again the following Christmas.

The Adopt-A-Family program

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