CITY OF SAN JOSE DEL MONTE—The Provincial Government of Bulacan (PGB) has extended its love to some 2,400 Muslims in this city through gift giving of food packs on Wednesday for the start of their one month Ramadan during the weekend.
Gov. Daniel Fernando distributed rice and grocery items to members of 19 Muslim communities in the city including some cash money as support for the meals—like fish and vegetables.
Ramadan is a dawn-to-sunset fasting for a month’s period practice of the Muslim communities worldwide which will begin on the evenings of Friday, Feb. 28, Saturday, March 1 or even (possibly) March 2.
According to Rowena Joson-Tiongson, head of the Bulacan Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office (PSWDO), leaders of the said 19 Muslim communities have earlier requested for food support to the office of the governor for their Ramadan on Saturday, March 1.
The City of San Jose del Monte has the most number of Muslims in Bulacan who have evacuated from Mindanao after the series of conflicts and war between the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the national government since 2000 and earlier before the 2018 passage into law of the Bangsamoro Organic Law and the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).
