As part of the month-long celebration of Pandesal Month, Kamuning Bakery Café invites the public to Oct. 27 Sunday 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 nn for free medical, dental and optical missions at Judge Jimenez Street corner K-1st Street, Brgy. Kamuning, Quezon City.
This civic project is in partnership with Federation of Filipino Chinese Chambers of Commerce & Industry, Inc. (FFCCCII) led by President Dr. Henry Lim Bon Liong and Society of Philippine Entertainment Editors, Inc. (SPEEd) led by President Ian Fariñas.
Two successful events were recently held at the 80-year-old Kamuning Bakery Café: the first free medical, dental and optical mission on Oct. 6 with partner Chinese General Hospital & Medical Center led by President Dr. James G. Dy, who is also known as the founder of Universal Records and Dyna Records. Pandesal Month’s highlight was the successful 5th World Pandesal Day on Oct. 16, when Kamuning Bakery Café led by owner Wilson Lee Flores gave away
70,000 pandesal breads and other foods to the public with special guests Senator Cynthia Villar, Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte Regal Films founder Mother Lily Y. Monteverde, Santa Klaws and 80-year-old Joaquin Roces, Jr. (grandson of Kamuning Bakery Café’s first “suki” or loyal customer pre-war media tycoon and Quezon City co-founder Alejandro Roces, also eldest son of “suki” newspaper publisher/activist Joaquin “Chino” Roces).
President Rodrigo R. Duterte, Sen. Manny Pacquiao, former Senate President Manuel “Manny” B. Villar, Sen. Bong Go, and GMA Network, Inc. Chairman Atty.Felipe Gozon, among others, sent messages of support for this project.
“World Pandesal Day” is a unique civic and cultural project which hopes to honor the humble yet great Filipino bread pandesal and highlight the need to solve age-old problems of hunger and poverty. It is also Kamuning Bakery Cafe’s thanksgiving for continuous public patronage since 1939, despite rise of giant bread factories and many modern bakery chains, also despite a destructive 2018 fire that heavily damaged it.
Realty entrepreneur and writer Wilson Lee Flores said although Kamuning Bakery Café is just a small business which he bought and revived four years ago, he was inspired to start “World Pandesal Day” charities due to the Bible story of a humble boy who shared 5 loaves of breads and 2 fishes, which Jesus Christ multiplied to feed over 5,000 men plus many women and children. Oct. 16 is also World Bread Day.
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