Social Enterprise in the Time of Pandemic 43 long delays of government relief efforts, they had to rely on other social support systems such as the relief program of their spouses’ or children’s employers and money transfers from relatives to put food on the table. Lea stated: During the community quarantine, we were struggling. My husband’s work stopped. As a regular employee at a construction company in Taguig City, he was given Php 1,400 per week by his employer for the last two weeks of March. In April, in lieu of his salary, he was given half of his 13th month pay for 2020. In May, he was given his one-month salary despite not reporting for work. In June, he was not given anything, so he looked for sideline jobs in the community. At one point, his relatives from the province also sent money. Thankfully, in the second week of July, he was back at work. Similarly, because of Bea’s frustration in the delays of the distribution of government food packs, she also had to rely on other means to support her extended family’s basic needs being the head of the family. She stated: We are twelve in the family. Three kilos of rice, that is just for one meal (laughs). It is really difficult. At one point, my siblings in the province sent money because they know I am already a widow … The local government gave us ten kilos of rice, but for my family, that is not enough. I need to look for other ways. Thankfully, my deceased husband who used to work as a security guard has SSS pension which helps to sustains us … My son also received assistance from his employer—Php 1,000 per week. It lasted for one month and a half. That helped, too. According to Memorandum No. 4, s. 2020 of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), “[t]he Barangay shall identify and prepare the list of qualified beneficiaries” (p. 14) who are low-income households or workers in the informal economy. It further states that the identification process is to be conducted by an “identified personnel of the barangay” through a house-to-house distribution of Social Amelioration Card (SAC) forms to be accomplished by the head of the family. The generated data will be reviewed at the city/municipality level and the DSWD Central Office and will be the basis of the final list of target beneficiaries. Three weeks after the declaration of the community quarantine, the first of the three rounds of food packs from the local government arrived. It contained five kilos of rice, eight cans of sardines, and four packs of instant noodles. Meanwhile, the first