In a bid to ensure food security and promote a healthy diet amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte has already distributed the city’s urban farm produce to 36,000 indigent families.
“This project aims to bring nutritious food to the table of our QCitizens, especially those who were badly affected by this pandemic,” she said.
“Amid the surge of cases, we want to help those affected from the vulnerable sectors. We want to make it sure that they are healthy and strong, especially in their struggles day to day.”
The city government was able to hand out food packages to 36,000 beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) and Yakap Day Care family beneficiaries under its Handog Pasasalamat program.
The food package contained a bag of rice, canned goods and several sets of vegetables that were harvested from the different urban farms all over the city.
Belmonte says the project emphasizes the importance of urban farming to ensure that the people will have greater access to a healthy and safe source of food even during and beyond the pandemic, while displaced workers were given new opportunities to earn to grow and harvest the farm produce.
Under the Joy of Urban Farming project, several urban farming sites were established all over the six districts of the city.