We all need a care that focuses not only to our physical needs but also psycho-social needs.
Palliative care, that’s what Compassionate Community Kitchen (CCK) aims to serve. CCK is not only a space for people who enjoy cooking but they are a group of people that cares and want to serve the underprivileged and be a beacon of hope to the sick by handing them nutritious food.
Developed under The Ruth Foundation, CCK has cooks and chefs that are trained to cook special Southeast Asian cuisine.
We were served with Singaporean food that tickled our taste buds to something flavorful and tasty with every bite.
The Ruth Foundation for Palliative Care was formed in 2012 for the primary purpose of providing community-based opportunities for service in the care of the homebound elderly and those with life-limiting illness alongside education and training in palliative and hospice care for nurses, volunteers and other community-based health professionals.
CCK gives free meals weekly to palliative care patients such as:
- The Ruth Foundation Palliative & Hospice Care Patients
- Brgy. Munting Ilog residents 80 years old and above
- Shelter of Hope (Silungan ng Pag-asa), a temporary sehlter in Manila where cancer-afflicted children from faraway provinces can safely stay while they need their treatments and follow-up
- CHILD Haus, The Center for Health Improvement and Life Development (CHILD) Haus is the first and only temporary home for indigent children with cancer.
- House of Somang, a charity-based, residential facility for the abandoned and homeless elders in Metro Manila
With that, CCK has become a fund-raising endeavor that accepts orders for their delicious meals wherein all you pay will be given back to fund free meals for their beneficiaries.
Which means you will not only be enjoying Southeast Asian cuisine but you will also be handing help to those starving stomachs. Two birds, one stone!
To get involved, you can contact them through the following:
- https://www.ruth.ph/
- https://www.facebook.com/cocokitchen.ph
- Contact Sheryl Gregory (sheryl.gregory318@gmail.com)
- To order, Viber or Call +639455949465
- Gcash (MOP): +639455973246
If you want to beyond order meals, sponsorship of good packages for their beneficiaries are accepted.
A gift of P5,000 can subsidize 30 patient meals while P1,500 can fund 12 patient meals.
Photos by: Rei De Guzman
