Today we are featuring another successful bigasan supported by TYF and The Hunger Project of Philippine Business for Social Progress: St Francis Xavier Parish in Quezon City.
The parish bigasan has an unusual sales and distribution model. It doesn’t have a physical store. Instead, residents in 7 areas relay their orders (in kg) to lay leaders, and every Saturday the rice is delivered to the areas where it is repacked and picked up by the households.
Although the price of rice from Nueva Ecija has gone up substantially since last year, the parish raised the price per kilo by just one peso. Parish priest Fr Simone Piccolo, SX is determined to make rice affordable to everyone. For P38/kg, urban poor families benefit from premium Sinandomeng at a price lower than that in public markets. It is no surprise, therefore, that the bigasan sells up to 90 sacks per week. Since opening in February 2022, it has sold 5,230 sacks - more than 13 tons.
Mabuhay kayo, St. Francis Xavier Parish!
