Support for Community · 2023

Groceries in a bag worth keeping

Two hundred persons with disabilities received reusable eco bags filled with groceries — the same number of neighbors as the year before, in a form the household keeps using.

Eco bags: 200
Recipients: Persons with disabilities

A man sits on a plastic chair with a walking cane beside him and a green eco bag on the court floor; a woman in a red Muñozonian USA shirt stands next to him in front of the yellow MUSA tarpaulin. — A recipient waits with his eco bag, the MUSA tarpaulin hung on the truck behind him.

What happened

Two hundred persons with disabilities in Muñoz received eco bags filled with groceries. PWD — Persons with Disabilities — is the official Philippine term for the community this year served.

A covered basketball court draped with bunting, a teal truck stacked with red bags parked inside it, and rows of people seated on plastic chairs waiting. — The covered court on distribution day: the truck backed in, the bags stacked, the rows already filled.

A woman in a wheelchair is handed a green eco bag by a volunteer standing at the tailgate of the teal truck. — A green eco bag handed down from the tailgate.

Rows of people seated on plastic chairs under the court's roof, red Muñozonian USA bags on the floor at their feet. — Bags at their feet, the rows waiting their turn.

The bag was the point as much as the groceries. A reusable eco bag carries the food home and then goes on being useful, which is the same thinking behind the pails of the year before. Two years running, MUSA came back to a community of the same two hundred rather than moving on to a new one.