Volunteers and church workers from the San Vicente de Paul Parish and Caritas Manila works side by side in distributing food packs from a vehicle to under privilege and street dwellers along San Marcelino Street in Ermita, Manila on August 18, 2021. The efforts in distributing food packs has been done since the declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, and with Metro Manila under the enhanced community quarantine, the parish have suspended their community pantry for street dwellers that surround the area. PHOTO BY ENRIQUE AGCAOILI
THE Church-Workers Solidarity (CWS), a church-labor organization, has demanded accountability from the Department of Health (DoH) on how it used the more than P67 billion in Covid response funds.
At the same time, Caritas Philippines, the Catholic Church's social action arm, rallied behind the Commission on Audit (CoA) after the agency received a tongue-lashing from President Duterte for flagging possible misuse of government funds.