Senator Imee Marcos on Oct. 14 distributed free Pandesal packs to principals, teachers, and students of 4 public schools (Kamuning Elementary School, Quezon City High School, Tomas Morato Elementary School & Don Alejandro Roces Science High School) at a ceremony at Kamuning Bakery Cafe in Quezon City to kickstart the annual “World Pandesal Day” celebrated every year on October 16.
She also answered socio-economic, geopolitics, and other questions from media at “Pandesal Forum”. Free Pandesal breads and other foods shall be given, and free medical/dental/optical mission shall be conducted on October 16 Sunday 8 am to 12 noon for “World Pandesal Day” at 83-year-old Kamuning Bakery Cafe at Judge Jimenez Street corner K-1st Street, Barangay Kamuning, Quezon City. This is also the first ever actual free medical/dental/optical mission by Federation of Filipino Chinese Chambers of Commerce & Industry, Inc. (FFCCCII) ever since the global pandemic. The public is welcome.
Started on October 16, 2015 with special guests GMA Network, Inc. chairman attorney Felipe Gozon, Senator Sonny Angara and former National Youth Commission (NYC) Commissioner Dingdong Dantes, Kamuning Bakery Cafe owner Wilson Lee Flores said the goals of “World Pandesal Day” are to honor the humble yet great Pandesal as national bread of the Philippines and to highlight the need to solve the age-old problems of hunger and poverty. Other leaders who have expressed support for World Pandesal Day in the past included former President Rodrigo Duterte, former First Lady Imelda Romualdez Marcos, former Vice-President Leni Robredo and others.
Wilson Lee Flores said this philanthropic project of giving away 70,000 free breads and other foods to urban poor families every October 16 was inspired by the miracle in the Bible of a boy who donated five loaves of breads and two fishes, which Jesus Christ multiplied to feed thousands of people.
The World Pandesal Day has the support of FFCCCII, Philippine Foremost Milling, San Miguel Mills, Mondelez Philippines, Hobe Noodles, Mega Sardines, King Sue Ham, Yan Yan International Phils. Inc., Ever Bilena, Nash Coffee, Caltex in Iba Malhacan Road, Meycauayan Exit, Bulacan, Cathedral Cargo Movers Trucking and Pagcor.