Zambo family begs off food aid, wants share go to the poor

ZAMBOANGA CITY – While everybody is dependent of government relief assistance for their daily sustenance, a local family has begged off food aid from social workers and telling them to give the share to those who need it most.

Bella Huang gestures as she explains Thursday, May 20, 2020 the sign her family put outside the house gate. (Zamboanga Post)

The Huang family even put up a sign outside their house gate that reads: “Pass sa relief goods. Please, pakibigay sa mas nangangailangan. God bless us all!”

Bella Huang said she and her husband decided to just give their share of food assistance from the local government to the poor because they can still manage to feed their three children despite the health crisis.

“Ang purpose po namin kung bakit namin inilagay ito mag-asawa para yun ibinibigay ng gobyerno o ng barangay na tulong o relief goods ay mapunta sa mas nangangailangan po. Kung sino naman diyan na may sobra-sobra naman at kaya pa naman sa buhay nila sana po magbigay rin sila ng tulong sa mas nangangailangan,” the shy woman told the Zamboanga Post newspaper on Thursday in a chance interview.

The good deed the Huang family has showed was also praised by their neighbors. “Mabait talaga ang pamilyang yan at sana gayahin rin ng iba, lalo na yun mga mayayaman na magbigay rin ng pagmamahal sa ating kapwa,” an old woman said, referring to the Huang family.

The family runs a small business of buying and selling various merchandises from clothing hangers to plastic cabinets, but Huang said they were forced to temporarily stop selling because of the strict enhanced community quarantine here due to the coronavirus pandemic or Covid-19.

However, despite of the crisis that largely affected the local economy and seriously put many people out of work, including her family’s business, Huang said they are happy that all of them are healthy and she also wished the same to others who are now suffering because of the pandemic that already killed over 10,000 in the country since March.

In Zamboanga City, health authorities have recorded at least 60 confirmed Covid-19 cases with over 500 more suspected of being infected with the deadly respiratory disease that had killed 3 people here. (Zamboanga Post)

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