By: BZ
Santa Claus is coming to town once again and whether you’re young or old you just have that feeling inside that makes you want to be extra nice rather than naughty, this time of the year.
It’s like Christmas is a reason in itself to do something good, to simply indulge a little more on the good stuff, and to sometimes even take advantage of the good that others are doing for us. Christmas just has the power to bring out the good in each person that the common line we Filipinos say “Sana araw-araw pasko” (I hope everyday is Christmas day) is something that we unconsciously wish for whenever you start seeing Christmas lights and hearing Christmas songs.
The Christmas spirit has the power to bring people together to do good things but other than this season, it seems like only the aftershocks of severe weather calamities is what brings people together in all the other months of the year.
“We don’t need another calamity for us to come together and help others,” actor, United Nations World Hunger Relief Program volunteer and founder of K.I.D.S. Foundation Diether Ocampo says.The constant fight against hunger worldwide has never ceased and the rumbling stomachs of children are getting louder and louder here in the Philippines, most especially in conflict-affected Mindanao.
A big number of Filipino children who are not able to eat the right foods in the right amounts every single day go to school with no energy to learn because all they think about are their rumbling stomachs caused by hunger. Imagine if you’re able to silence this and fill that hole in their tummy for every meal that you buy for yourself making your dining experience at Pizza Hut or Taco Bell can be a charitable act in itself!
You can help provide nutritious meals to 76,000 elementary school students in the conflicted areas of Mindanao with every order of the Pizza Hut-WFP Bundle Feast. Pizza Hut restaurants will give 10 pesos to the World Hunger Relief campaign with every purchase of this meal, while a customer donating 40 pesos will receive a Christmas card signed by Diether Ocampo. An order of Nachos Bellgrande Combo Meal at Taco Bell will likewise put aside 10 pesos for this same endeavor, until the end of the year.
 From L to R: Diether Ocampo-World Hunger Relief Programme Volunteer, Stephen Anderson-Country Director UN-WFP Lars Peterson-Pizza Hut and Taco Bell COO showing the WFP Christmas postcard |
“We can do a lot of things if we do it together,” Diether shares. So while it’s still December, drop by any Pizza Hut or Taco Bell branch after a long day of Christmas shopping and do a good deed by feasting on any of the two meals for the beneficiaries of the World Food Program. It’s never too late to be on Santa’s “Nice” list!
*Photos from pizzahut.com and Mr. Manny Palermo
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