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Adopt-A-Family

Noche Buena and Media Noche food baskets for families in Muñoz, bought locally.

A woman and a child in face masks walk out from under a yellow tent carrying Noche Buena baskets.
Taking Noche Buena baskets home, December 2021.

The need

Noche Buena on Christmas Eve and Media Noche on New Year's Eve are the meals Filipino families gather around all year. For families without steady income in Barangay Poblacion, they are the first thing to go.

Rows of wrapped Noche Buena baskets in buckets fill the aisle of a chapel before a distribution.
Baskets lined up in the chapel before the December 2021 distribution.
The contents of a basket laid out on a table beside a green MUSA bucket: coffee, cheese, pasta, ham and a bag of rice.
Inside a 2021 basket: coffee, cheese, pasta, ham and rice.
A man lifts buckets lettered Muñozonian USA 2021 from the back of a vehicle.
Unloading buckets marked Muñozonian USA 2021.

What we do

In December 2020 we fed 30 families in Poblacion West and 30 in Poblacion East with baskets of rice, corned beef, coffee, bread and other staples — every item bought in Muñoz so the town's own stores benefit too. We did it again for Noche Buena 2021.

On the record

December 2021
Noche Buena baskets again
December 2020
60 families — 30 in Barangay Poblacion West, 30 in Poblacion East

From the archive

From the Adopt-A-Family Noche Buena distribution, December 2021 — photos from our archive.
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