KFC brought fried chicken by hovercraft to a woman in a flooded Filipino village

Special delivery.
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Yvette Tan
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Nanay Cora hasn't had a birthday celebration since she was eight.

So for her 69th birthday, KFC decided to throw her a party, complete with some good old fashioned fried chicken.

There was, however, one problem. Cora lives in Artex, a village in the Philippines which has been flooded for decades, and is essentially impossible to get to by most conventional forms of transportation.

"I never would have thought that food could be delivered here," says Cora in the video.

"This place is inaccessible to most."

Needless to say, people were pretty touched.

"This is really amazing. Thanks for doing this," said one netizen on Facebook.

"You didn't only bring your finger lickin good chicken to people, you've warmed a lot of hearts," another added.

"Such heart-warming content, Hope you guys can deliver chicken to those who live in mountainous areas as well," one said.

KFC, who partnered with ad company Ogilvy for the campaign, added that they were encouraged by the "overwhelmingly positive reactions."

"We came across Nanay Cora's story through an Instagram post of an online influencer," an Ogilvy spokesperson told Mashable.

Good one KFC -- Pepsi, you might want to start taking notes.

UPDATE: May 4, 2017, 11:54 a.m. SGT Ogilvy's comments added

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Yvette Tan

Yvette is a Viral Content Reporter at Mashable Asia. She was previously reporting for BBC's Singapore bureau and Channel NewsAsia.

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