HEADS UP: Your Guide to Community Pantries (April 20)

Here's a Heads Up from Reportr.World on news that you need to know today, April 20:

COMMUNITY PANTRY GUIDE:

• Kindness is going viral. Here's a guide to setting up a community pantry from those who started one.
• Even inmates of the Davao City jail have pitched in with their biscuits and coffee.
• This website helps you find the community pantry nearest you.
• Here are directories from Spot.ph and Yummy.ph on the community pantry nearest you. There's no shortage of places to donate.

NEWS YOU CAN USE:

• Stay on top of Typhoon Bising (Surigae) with our coverage. It's unlikely to hit land but will be felt in large parts of Eastern Luzon and the Visayas.
• Here's how you can avail of unlimited 5G on Smart Communications.

NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW:

• Here's a pictoral tour of Pag-Asa Island, the Philippines lonely outpost in the Spratlys that could be the next Amanpulo, except China wants it.
• The Philippines resumed using AstraZeneca vaccines for those below 60 because the benefits far ouweight the blood clot risk.
• How to pandemic-proof your money? Invest in food but make it one-of-a-kind, like this drive-thru ulam joint in Bulacan.
• Where did Manila Bay get its fresh dolomite "white sand"? Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia explains. The province hosts the dolomite mine that is key to the project.
• Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian is pushing for mandatory bank accounts for every Filipino to make ayuda distribution easier and corruption-proof.
• The LRT-2 East Extension opening was pushed back by two months to June.
• Essential workers, who are fourth in line (A4) for the COVID vaccine, could get their as early as May, according to a Cabinet official.
• The pandemic nightmare is nearly over for these countries. Israel has dropped the face mask requirement while Australia and New Zealand have opened a travel bubble where hugs and kisses are allowed.