Project for the hungry

“Restaurants Against Hunger,” a child-nutrition program of the worldwide organization Action Against Hunger featured in Margaux Salcedo’s column (“Multiplying the loaves and fishes,” 9/9/18), deserves support.

It is a good sign that 118 restaurants have signed up to help in alleviating the chronic malnutrition of Filipino kids (estimated at 30 percent).

In a recent series of articles that appeared in a Spanish newspaper on the drug war in our country, the reporter wrote on the lives of those people living near garbage dumps.

He said that they go to a “pagpagan,” where food salvaged from garbage is washed, fried and served.

Action Against Hunger wants to prove Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort wrong. He once cynically proclaimed: “Society is made up of two great classes: those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.”

FR. LUIS P. SUPAN, lpsupan@gmail.com