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This honesty cart report shows character Baguio folks are known

Baguio City residents are best known for their honesty and they are living up to expectations despite the pandemic if the output of the honesty cart project is to be the gauge.

Mayor Benjamin Magalong said a private company which put up the honesty carts in three areas in the city amid the Enhanced Community Quarantine last May reported not an undercollection but the exact opposite in the payments from the items sold in the unguarded store carts.

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"Looking at the audit report, there was even an over collection. We can say that people of Baguio are amazingly honest. I am so proud, " the mayor said.

Janeth Martin, business developer of Coca Cola Beverages Inc. which set up the carts to provide special jobs to some marginalized individuals who lost their source of income due to the COVID-19 crisis, reported to the mayor that the carts collected a total of P2,090 against the collectible amount of P1,756 or an excess of P334 from the carts' operation from May 9 to June 10.


The honesty shops which were stationed at the Central Business District, Irisan barangay and at the Baguio City Hall are left unattended and buyers could freely get the item and drop the payment in a built-in contraption.

Aside from helping the poor, the project also aims to promote honesty as a core value and to gain an insight on how the locals cling to their values in times of hardship, according to Martin.

The proceeds of the project are turned over to the city government to assist poor individuals affected by the crisis. - 

Originally written by: Aileen P. Refuerzo / Baguio City PIO

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