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Support for Community

Standing with Muñoz families in hard times, from 1990s missions to COVID-19 relief.

A man in a green shirt and face mask holds a relief pack in front of a yellow Muñozonian USA banner.
A relief pack handed over under the MUSA banner, Tulong Laban sa COVID.

The need

Muñoz families meet emergencies with little to fall back on. When COVID-19 lockdowns closed the town down, daily-wage families lost their income overnight, barangay by barangay — and long before that, basic dental and medical care meant a trip and a fee many households could not manage.

A large group of volunteers and neighbors gathered in a church courtyard under a yellow MUSA banner.
The Tulong Laban sa COVID team and neighbors under the MUSA banner.
A group stands behind a table with a hand-lettered Muñozonian USA Medical Mission sign.
A Muñozonian USA medical mission in the 1990s, scanned from a print.
A group poses behind a banner reading Topical Fluoride Application, sponsored by Muñozonian USA.
A topical fluoride application sponsored by Muñozonian USA, 1990s, scanned from a print.

What we do

Our largest effort was Tulong Laban sa COVID — “help against COVID” — which brought relief across Muñoz's barangays, from Poblacion to Villa Santos, Central and Magtanggol, working with Fr. Ariel Capuyon of San Sebastian Parish and MUSA members on the ground. In the 1990s the same instinct took the form of medical and topical-fluoride missions, and donations of books and equipment to Muñoz schools. Since 2020 it has run every year, and the people it reaches change: families at the holidays, then a town under lockdown, neighbors living with disabilities, the crews who keep the streets clean, and a barangay chapel that needed a roof.

A year at a time

  1. 2025

    2025

    The Worship that Faith Built

    Roof repairs for the chapel in Barangay Labney, one of Muñoz's 37 barangays and among its smallest — about 230 households at the last census. Our first building project of this run; every year before it was goods or a grant.

    All of 2025

  2. Sacks of rice stacked beside rows of red grocery pails on a hall floor; a woman speaks into a microphone while officials sit at a table beneath the office's organisational chart.

    21 photos

    2024

    The crews who keep the streets clean

    The year went to the frontline workers of the City Environment and Natural Resources Office — street sweepers, garbage collectors and tree trimmers — together with the youth volunteers who work the streets beside them. They keep the city running and are rarely thanked for it.

    All of 2024

  3. A covered basketball court draped with bunting, a teal truck stacked with red bags parked inside it, and rows of people seated on plastic chairs waiting.

    54 photos

    2023

    Groceries in a bag worth keeping

    Two hundred persons with disabilities received reusable eco bags filled with groceries — the same number of neighbors as the year before, in a form the household keeps using.

    • 200 eco bags
    • Persons with disabilities recipients

    All of 2023

  4. 200

    Pails of gifts

    2022

    Two hundred timba, and a parish after a fire

    Gifts for 200 persons with disabilities, packed in timba — the plastic pails a Filipino household goes on using long after the contents are gone. The same year, $2,500 went to San Sebastian Martyr Parish in Muñoz to rebuild after a fire.

    • 200 pails of gifts
    • Persons with disabilities recipients
    • $2,500 to san sebastian martyr parish

    All of 2022

  5. A man in a white shirt and cap stands in front of the yellow Muñozonian USA tarpaulin at a church gate, holding a wrapped packet, with bags of rice on the pavement at his feet.

    45 photos

    2021

    TLC — Tulong Laban sa COVID

    “Aid against COVID,” and the initials read as tender loving care besides. Four hundred households across Muñoz each received five kilos of relief goods: two metric tons in all.

    • 400 households reached
    • 5 kilos of relief goods each received
    • 2 metric tons in total

    All of 2021

  6. A masked woman sits alone on a wooden church pew with two green-wrapped baskets tied with red ribbon on the bench beside her.

    3 photos

    2020

    Noche Buena, and Media Noche after it

    Sixty families in Barangay Poblacion West and East were carried through both midnight feasts — Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve — on baskets bought from Muñoz stores.

    • 60 families
    • Poblacion West and Poblacion East barangays
    • Noche Buena and Media Noche meals covered

    All of 2020

From the archive

Earlier community projects, scanned from prints — fluoride and medical missions, books and equipment for Muñoz.
All of our work

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