'Share Your Extras' benefits 9,500 families

MANILA, Philippines - Share Your Extras, one of the mall-based projects of the SM Foundation, encourages mall shoppers and tenants to donate their extras like clothes, canned goods, furniture, houseware for distribution to indigent families nationwide.

Bob Navida, Share-Your-Extras project director, said that aside from goods gathered in donation booths in malls and the Foundation’s own donation, many items were from Filipino communities  abroad  who sent  their slightly used  and brand new clothes, shoes, linens, canned food  and noodles through  LBC Mundial.

The goods were distributed to an initial 9,500 families in Quezon, Pangasinan, Manila, Caloocan, Pasig, Marikina, Pampanga, Muntinlupa, Iloilo, Negros Occidental, Davao del Norte, Cavite, Mindoro, Baguio and Camarines Sur. Target is to help 14,000 families this year. 

Aside from the beneficiaries identified by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in KALAHI-CIDSS areas, families in disaster prone areas and those who have been victims of natural calamities also received assistance from the project.

?Project partners this year are  the DSWD, the Philippine Information Agency and the YMCA who manned  the donation  booths  in selected SM Supermalls.