BY NICK GIONGCO
While he is on self-imposed quarantine in Metro Manila, Sen. Manny Pacquiao isn’t turning his back on constituents in his hometown of General Santos City and the neighboring province of Sarangani.
Pacquiao’s people have been mobilized to attend to the needs not only of the poor but of the destitute.
David Sisson, a close aide of Pacquiao, has just received the delivery of 2,000 sacks of rice and 40,000 cans of sardines.
“These will go to those who don’t have anything, the ones who badly need food because they don’t have money to buy the basic necessities,” said Sisson from General Santos City.
“I have reached out to them and they told me that rice is much more important than canned goods because with rice, they can just put salt and it’ll be good to eat,” said Sisson.
Different barangays have started the distribution of food packs and the fresh delivery should augment their stock, Sisson said.
Pacquiao is spearheading the move to lend a hand to affected people not just in Luzon but in the entire nation.
Medical supplies such as coronavirus test kits and facial masks from China and Korea have already been delivered to the Department of Health.
Providing financial help and other forms of assistance is nothing new for Pacquiao, who makes it a point to feed the hungry and hand out give baskets and even cash to his constituents during his birthday.
