Manila, April 7 -- This highly urbanized city is preparing to revive the community kitchen initiative to aid the most vulnerable sectors amid surging fuel prices due to the Middle East crisis.

In an interview Tuesday, General Services Office head and Crisis Management Council executive director Neil Ravena said they will conduct a simulation exercise in Barangay Boulevard and Barangay Calaparan so they can effectively respond when the poorest of the poor can no longer afford to buy food.

"We will pilot test so that in the worst-case scenario, we have an automatic response and we can identify the families that we will serve," he said.

During the simulation exercise, they will practice the integration of responses, identify the beneficia...