519- Balikbayan Boxes

<p>This time of year, right in the middle of the holiday season, there's a beloved, frenzied tradition playing out in Filipino households all around the world, with which reporter Gabrielle Berbey is intimately familiar. A Balikbayan box is a huge cardboard box (often weighing over 100 pounds) that Filipinos living all over the world send to family members who are still living <i>in</i> the Philippines. The word Balikbayan literally means homecoming in Tagalog.</p><p><a href="https://99percentinvisible.org/?p=39737&post_type=episode">Balikbayan Boxes</a></p>