We cannot afford to see little children running on the streets with empty stomachs. Please read the article below to give you a bird's eye-view about the project "Lugaw para sa Bata."

What is Lugaw?
"Lugaw" is a Filipino term for congee. Traditionally, it was served for sick people who do not have the craving to eat. It is a soft-boiled rice cooked in meat broth with ginger and pepper. The logic why it was coined as food for the sick were 1) sick people lose their appetite and 2) sick people do not have enough energy to chew their food. Lugaw makes a little change. Sick people don't need to chew, just swallow. Sick people don't need to have their appetite to eat lugaw, just swallow. What was important was the sick person gets the energy he needs for the day. Hence, a portion of his energy is retrieved by the lugaw just like any other food can do. At one point, the food was converted into usable nutrients.

As years went by, lugaw became a traditional food - a breakfast or a snack. However, we are not concern here with the sick people. The title "Lugaw para sa Bata" means congee-for-a-child. We are concern here of lugaw and the children. We are concern here with what these small children from a small community contribute to one of the world's social problem today - hunger problem.

www.pinoysignal.com in cooperation of some Filipino volunteers in the Philippines decided to fight against this social problem by feeding 100 children in selected areas in the Philippines every month. This is a microscopic dot of help if we will compare the list in our statistics stating millions of hungry children around the world but a scoop of help is better than nothing at all.

"We would like to thank our sponsors and volunteers
who believed
that little help from the heart comes 10x fold back."
- Lugaw Para sa Bata Team