Covid-19 lockdown began here in Cebu, the second-largest city in the Philippines, with 2.8 million inhabitants, on St Patrick’s Day last year. It left a self-sufficient people with a horrific dilemma: quarantine and starve, or earn money on the street and face detention. We recruited 18 young volunteers from within the community to pack and deliver the food to every resident’s door twice a week. The alleys emptied, except for the PPE-clad volunteers quietly moving from door to door twice a week with food packs. Like many other poorer nations, Philippines is facing a huge vaccine–supply crisis.

Source: The Irish Times April 26, 2021 04:52 UTC