PwedePa
A food-rescue marketplace connecting Filipino food businesses with customers — perfectly edible 'imperfect' food at discounted prices, before it becomes waste.
Metro Manila throws away around 2,000 tons of food a day, while 11.8% of Filipino families experience hunger. PwedePa sits right in that gap: food businesses list their surplus — the day-old pandesal, the slightly dented produce, the end-of-day trays — and customers rescue it at a discount.
Browse nearby listings on a map, filter by food type, reserve what you want, and pick it up within the store's time window. The business recovers cost instead of paying for disposal, the customer eats well for less, and the food ends up where it belongs.
The name says it all — 'pwede pa' is Filipino for 'still good.' It's resourcefulness, the value every Filipino household already runs on, turned into a marketplace.
- Map-based browsing with food-type filters to find rescues nearby
- Reserve-and-pickup flow with per-store time windows
- Two-sided onboarding — join as a customer or list surplus as a business