Support for Community · 2021

TLC — Tulong Laban sa COVID

“Aid against COVID,” and the initials read as tender loving care besides. Four hundred households across Muñoz each received five kilos of relief goods: two metric tons in all.

Households reached: 400
Each received: 5 kilos of relief goods
In total: 2 metric tons

A man in a white shirt and cap stands in front of the yellow Muñozonian USA tarpaulin at a church gate, holding a wrapped packet, with bags of rice on the pavement at his feet. — A recipient with his share at the church gate — a packet of goods, and the rice at his feet.

What happened

Tulong Laban sa COVID means aid against COVID. The initials were chosen to do double duty — TLC reads in English as tender loving care, which is the second thing the name is saying.

A woman in a green shirt and cap holds up a clear packet in front of the MUSA tarpaulin, bags of rice on the ground in front of her. — The same share, the same spot: everyone who collected was photographed with it.

A man with a shoulder bag stands by the tarpaulin beside a blue branded sack of rice, a packet of goods and further bags of rice at his feet. — A sack of rice and a packet of goods, the share the notes count as five kilos.

When the lockdowns closed Muñoz down, daily-wage families lost their income overnight. Four hundred households each received five kilos of relief goods, two metric tons between them, carried across the town's barangays from Poblacion to Villa Santos, Central and Magtanggol, with Fr. Ariel Capuyon of San Sebastian Parish and MUSA members working on the ground.