In the middle of a coronavirus lockdown in the Philippine capital, Grace Lagaday was struggling to breastfeed her newborn without milk storage bottles and nursing pads.
Objects, mostly baby essentials, acquired from Grace Lagaday's online bartering are photographed in Rizal province, east of Manila, Philippines, September 23, 2020. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez
“I really needed breastfeeding stuff but very limited goods were available,” Lagaday told Reuters. “For a mom who gave birth during this pandemic season, bartering helped me find good deals for my baby.” Among the extreme exchanges: a 36-year-old man from Cebu province in central Philippines traded a 1993 Mitsubishi Lancer for 125,000 pesos in cash and canned goods, noodles, and sacks of rice that he distributed to the poor, while a 20-year-old college student, also from Cebu, swapped two buckets of fried chicken for a live gamefowl.Barter trade has a long tradition in the Philippines, an archipelago of more than 7,600 islands that can make transportation of goods difficult at the best of times.
An hour after offering her father’s gamefowl for a trade, Karly Jan Tañola went home with 16 pieces of fried chicken.
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