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Taking cue from Pinoy bayanihan, community pantry rises in Timor Leste

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2021/tvpatrol/04/16/pantry.jpg"/><figcaption><em>From the Facebook page of Philippine Vice Consul in Timor Leste Laser Sumagaysay</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>MANILA— The Filipino&#x27;s bayanihan spirit that has seen a revival in the sprouting of community pantries across the country has reached Timor Leste, a nation of 1.3 million people south of the Philippines.</p><p>In a Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/laser.blitz/posts/1139294403164096">post</a>, Philippine Vice Consul in Timor Leste Laser Sumagaysay said that community pantries in the Philippines gained interest there after he and Timorese friends and diplomats discussed the bayanihan concept. </p><p>The official shared with them photos of neighborhood pantries that have sprung across the Philippines on the initiative of community organizers who want to help those struggling through their day-to-day sustenance. </p><p>&quot;Noting the local economic effect of this month’s historic flooding in #Dili and the year-long COVID-19 lockdown in Timor-Leste, I took the opportunity to discuss with some Timorese friends and diplomats about the concept of &#x27;bayanihan&#x27; and particularly showed them photos of #communitypantry set-ups in Ph to which they gained much interest. Colleagues and I, in our private capacities, are now supporting Timorese organizers as they launched their own (and the very first one) in TL (Timor Leste),&quot; said Sumagaysay in his post.</p><div><script src="https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v2.5" async="" type="text/javascript"></script></div><div class="fb-post" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1139282679831935&amp;set=pcb.1139294403164096" data-width="auto"> </div><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/04/20/21/you-dont-have-to-be-rich-to-help-others-community-pantry-organizers-share-desire-to-beat-hunger">&#x27;You don&#x27;t have to be rich to help others&#x27;: Community pantry organizers share desire to beat hunger</a></li></ul><p>This prompted locals to set up their own community pantry in capital Dili.</p><p>&quot;In my perspective as both private individual and diplomat, being in TL provides the opportunity to live and serve in a nation that is quite less developed but whose people are not in any way less spirited or determined than us Filipinos,&quot; he said.</p><p>&quot;Let us help spread the #bayanihan spirit in Timor-Leste.&quot;</p><div><strong>— with reports from Dennis Gasgonia, ABS-CBN News</strong></div><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO</strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" frameBorder="0" height="100%" id="ivsplayer01" scrolling="no" src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/html/iframe-src.html?iframeid=ivsplayer01&amp;key=e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603&amp;spid=3001339&amp;vid=1664210" width="100%"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div>

<p>A community pantry was also set up in Timor Leste, taking inspiration from the growing number of community pantries that have sprouted recently in the Philippines.</p>

A community pantry was also set up in Timor Leste, taking inspiration from the growing number of community pantries that have sprouted recently in the Philippines.