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Dear Champion, We get to witness families turning uncertainty into abundance through the work we do, and it’s truly something extraordinary. Today, we want to share the story of Marlon and Necia Freolo, and how Feed Back has enabled them to change how their family eats. For almost two decades, Marlon and Necia have called Sitio Suki, San Rafael in Sorsogon home. It's a coastal community that relies on the sea for nearly every meal. This past year alone, the province weathered

Dear Champion, Our circles are constantly expanding, and we’re here for it! In case you’re new to ARK or simply need a quick refresher, here’s what we do: We solve hunger for good. ARK is an award-winning social impact innovator and a trusted food security solution for governments, and recognized by international development agencies. Where It All Began Our story started with our co-founder and CEO, Ayesha Vera-Yu, who left Wall Street to restructure her family’s rice farm in

Hello Champion, It’s been a labor of love to get to this point where ARK is the leading food security solution in the Philippines and wanted in other parts of the world. It takes you, me, and our growing village and community. Personally, I wouldn’t be able to keep doing it for the past 16 years if not for my moms who love, care for, and guide me. My mom, Peregrine Vera, my very first idol, taught me to share. When I was young, she would tell me to give what I'm not using an

Through ARK Feed Back, Grab and MOVE IT driver partners and their neighbors in Antipolo, Montalban, and San Mateo can grow food in their backyards and have excess to supply their areas. HOW DOES IT WORK? They sign up for ARK’s Feed Back Exchange, a cashless market, collective palitan or barter, where participants take home their fair share of 20+ kinds of vegetables by sharing 3 kinds. This market inspires families to start farming in their backyards. In just 16 weeks, famili

Dear Champion, Aaaah!! Our work together with communities made cover! ARK is in Vogue’s April 2026 Earth Issue. Making ARK team and our partner communities proud— and we hope you too— is how our collective sharing in Feed Back is also creating a path for families to return to their own tradition of nagmamakulog, of sharing their harvests and showing up for each other. In the piece, we read about Ma’am Julie, a buri hat weaver, who brought her vegetables to the Feed Back Excha

Dear Champion, Happy New Year! Joy and focus: these are the two energies our Wave 11 partners are embracing as they start the year 2026. Joy for barangays graduating this January; focus for those restructuring and extending the program, giving more families a chance to join our Exchanges despite back-to-back typhoons and intervening rains. Over the weekend, we held our very first Wave 11 barangay graduation! Barangay Bagtic in La Libertad, Negros Oriental celebrated with a ba

Dear Champion, I am deeply grateful for you. This year, for many of us, life has not been easy. Yet you showed up and doubled down on your investment. With the current and 11th Wave of ARK Feed Back, you have turned empty backyards into gardens and neighbors into a community that feeds each other and shows up for each other especially during calamities. We checked in on our communities after each storm and the November super typhoon and what we witnessed was a new kind of res

Dear Champions, I am Yang, the Expansion and Engagement Manager at ARK. This week, I would love to share a story that is inspiring and nakakataba ng puso. In Filipino, this literally means “fattens the heart” and it describes something deeply heartwarming. Because of your support, families across the Philippines continue to grow food for life, even in the middle of an unforgiving typhoon season. What we are seeing on the ground is proof that Feed Back has planted determinatio

Dear Champion, Right now , there is another Category 5 super typhoon called Uwan hitting the Philippines. In recent months, back-to-back storms and earthquakes have caused destruction and instability across the country, leaving communities struggling to recover. In times like these, it’s ARK partner leaders like Mayor Malou Respicio of Reina Mercedes, Isabela whom I want at the helm leading me and the people to safety and, post-storm, to recovery. Why? Mayor Malou sincerely c