Education and Poverty in the Philippines
I've read and seen a lot of documentaries (TV, News Papers and even on the radio) with regards to the situation of education and poverty. Yes the gov't put up public schools etc... etc... but still we need to buy books, note books, pen/pencil, bag and dont forget the "baon". It seems like this two dance along well together. Education cannot be fulfilled if your poor but still the gov't said they will do something about it, If they are doing something then why still a lot of kids stay home or going to work? they also said that they will reach out so less fortunate kids can have proper education.... BUT!....... yes but, how come they (DEPED) will still be needing screening and choosing who is the poorest amongst the poor? kailangan pa ba ito? dahil ba sa kadahilanang puno at kulang ang mga pampublikong paaralan sa bansa? bakit kaya hindi na lang for every private school somehow have program that would help poor kids to be in school (3-5 kids maybe?) and why not instead of choosing who's the poorest why don't they just go and visit places where we can obviously see how the less fortunate one's live their life. cant we do something about this? i mean for the gov't side.
The last SONA of our new President says that he was amaze (well..... actually not.) of what the previous administration left behind. Where did this money went to? if only the budget was manage properly there will be no or if not less out of school children today. It breaks my heart whenever i see kids running across the street just for a damn centavo (But also i wonder if this kids are part of syndicate.). Pinapatulog pa kaya sila (Corrupt gov't officials) ng kanilang mga konsyensya? Are they blind? o baka naman sadyang na paka manhid na nila.
How i wish i can do more to help these out of school kids. Every time i would recall the first SONA of P.Noy last monday (7-26-2010) i cant help but wonder.... why such people can do this and get away from it, were not talking about millions of pesos that has been robbed to us but BILLIONS of pesos.
Pardon me but i am still thinking of what to say or write as i'm still in the state of anger and of a shock on how this things happened to my country and i guess i'll just end it this way for now.
(Photo courtesy of Eric Oebanda.... hope he don't mind me using his photos)
Wow nice post. i was really moved on what i saw. this country is really dying. we need to do something T_T. we cannot just wait in our government.
thats why im cooking up something for the out of school street children, im going to start my project really soon.
Thanks for dropping by (Cagayan de oro school) and maybe someday i'll be tapping your shoulder for some help.
So nice to know how much you care about this young children. I am wondering how many good ideas and even inventions will be wasted if this children won't be given the proper education... As of now, good teachers are already leaving our country, leaving the less skilled mentors to handle the bright ideas of the youth. Very few are sacrificing to stay and live with whatever the government give them.