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After raising P3.3M, Bela Padilla starts distributing goods to street vendors affected by quarantine

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<p>MANILA — After raising P3.3 million, actress Bela Padilla on Thursday started distributing goods to street vendors affected by the Luzon-wide community quarantine amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Thank you for having us! <a href="https://t.co/MlVGhD7pRS">https://t.co/MlVGhD7pRS</a></p>— Bela Padilla (@padillabela) <a href="https://twitter.com/padillabela/status/1240554510302326784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 19, 2020</a></blockquote><div><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script></div><p>Photos of Padilla aboard a military truck, loaded with the bundled goods, made the rounds on Twitter.</p><p>Padilla, in her own tweet, shared photos of a grocery store and the packed items earlier on Thursday, indicating she had just purchased them hours before the distribution.</p><p>Another photo from Padilla showed an elderly woman receiving a pack from a military personnel, along what appears to be Roxas Boulevard.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Almost done packing! Heading out in a bit! ❤️ <a href="https://t.co/b3ZvKo2NcJ">pic.twitter.com/b3ZvKo2NcJ</a></p>— Bela Padilla (@padillabela) <a href="https://twitter.com/padillabela/status/1240519335619129345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 19, 2020</a></blockquote><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><div dir="ltr" lang="und"><a href="https://t.co/y2moQ49zq0">pic.twitter.com/y2moQ49zq0</a></div>— Bela Padilla (@padillabela) <a href="https://twitter.com/padillabela/status/1240532678077628417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 19, 2020</a></blockquote><div><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script></div><p>Padilla, 28, launched the fundraiser just four days ago on Monday, as reports of street vendors losing their livelihood due to the month-long quarantine emerged.</p><p>&quot;Our favorite taho, dirty ice cream and banana cue vendors won&#x27;t be able to secure enough money to guarantee food for their families at the end of the day for one month until our community quarantine is over,&quot; wrote in her gogetfunding.com fundraiser.</p><p>The amount raised, she explained, would be used in &quot;16 ways,&quot; including the packed goods, and split among the 16 cities of Metro Manila.</p><p>In three days, the fundraiser reached nearly P1.4 million, past its goal of P1 million. Then on Wednesday, Padilla reported that one individual donated P2 million to her cause.</p>

<p>Photos of Padilla aboard a military truck, loaded with the bundled goods, made the rounds on Twitter.</p>

Photos of Padilla aboard a military truck, loaded with the bundled goods, made the rounds on Twitter.