Manila Archbishop Seeks Support For ‘Fast2Feed’ Feeding Campaign

This Lenten season, Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle asks the faithful to support the feeding campaign dubbed “Fast2Feed.”

Cardinal Tagle will release a pastoral letter for Ash Wednesday, February 10, to support the Church-based feeding program for the country’s malnourished children.

“It only takes P1,200 or ten pesos a day to bring back a hungry and malnourished child to a healthy state in six months,” noted the prelate.

Let us make a difference in their lives by fasting and donating whatever we save to Hapag-Asa. Let us Fast2Feed,” he said.

According to the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP), the “Fast2Feed” asks people to fast and donate the money that would otherwise be spent for food to Hapag-Asa program of Pondo ng Pinoy of the Archdiocese of Manila and its suffragan dioceses.

The program provides not only supplemental feeding but also early childhood education and livelihood and skills training for parents.

Last year, donations provided more than 21,000 malnourished and undernourished children in the Pondo ng Pinoy member dioceses with warm and nutritious meals every day for six months.
Cardinal Tagle also said that the program’s goal for this year is to feed 25,000 children.

Donations can be made through Fast2Feed envelopes distributed in various parishes and they may be offered during the Mass, or be turned over to the parish office.

“Lent should be a particular occasion to heed Pope Francis’ call to practice mercy through concrete acts of charity,” the cardinal added. (CBCP/RJB/JEG/PIA-NCR)