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GUINAYANGAN ATSARA. Papaya farmers from Quezon Province have reached out to us for help. A lot of their trees, all the green papaya fruit on those trees, were unfortunate casualties of#TyphoonKristine. These farmers are the same ones we helped in the past year , from Guinayangan. It was another typhoon, I remember it was #TyphoonQuinta. Here are pictures from that. So what we’ve decided to do is to buy these Green Papayas…to pickle and bottle them.

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TULUNGAN ANG GUINAYANGAN. When life throws you down, you get up. But what do you do when life sits on your chest? You try your best to breath. This was all I can think about when I saw these pictures. Oh, the poor papaya farmers of Guinayangan, Quezon! We feel so much pain for them right now. It’s bad enough that you cannot make a proper living on what your land gives you but when you lose it all completely like this, what else can you do? They were so happy last week when our group took 1.5 tons of papaya off their hands. For the first time in months, they said, they made a profit. It was the one time that the jeepney came home empty. Imagine how happy we were to hear that. Imagine how sad we are to see this, the work of Typhoon Quinta. When Guinayangan came under Signal No 3, some of the farmers were evacuated to town. They came home the next morning to this: homes damaged and trees ruined. A roof you can replace but trees? You can only replant them and wait for fruit. Paano na sa panahon ngayon?

PICKLED PAPAYA — P210 for 1 big bottle
Helps Guinayangan, Quezon farmers