In my own way of understanding and perception, poverty is one of the most serious problem or critical issue that is not easy to solve; the Government must be responsible to deal with it. Hearing the word poverty is a pain to everyone knowing that young and innocent people are completely involve in it. It bothers me seeing these people suffer from hunger, malnutrition, kwashiorkor, diarrhea due to lack of clean water for drinking purposes, etc. And simply said because of these reasons, these poor and innocent people are finding their own way and style to find work to fight for survival. One good example of this is they live in a near trash mound and scavenge through the rubble to find materials that they can re-sell. Though the money they get through this tough work is not enough, they still find it helpful since it fills up some of the primary needs of the family. Indeed, the life of this innocent assemblage number of people is a kind of tear-inducing.
In my everyday life, never had I crossed a street without seeing a child or a young old man/woman not begging for a peso coin. Without a strong evidence, I still strongly believe some of them were there because they don’t have this so called ‘’home’’ while others were there to ask for a little amount of money may be because an accident happened to their significant others, and sadly the last is maybe they’re just there because they were sent by criminals to collect money from a kind-hearted type of people. Whatever the reason is, good or bad, seeing them on the streets eating dirty and unhealthy food breaks my heart. There were times I gave them little amounts but I keep on instilling on my own that if I will keep on giving a peso or more to them, they might abuse it; somehow in life, they should know how to stand on their own feet so they won’t be dependent on anyone. Sometimes, I want them to learn that it takes hard work to succeed in life, that if they just keep on sitting on the bench or streets and wait for other people’s donation, nothing will ever be change, and that poverty will still never be eradicated.
To prevent further exacerbation of the problem, the government officials should be more responsible, cooperative and honest to its people. The willingness to help poor people like building houses, loans and giving jobs will increase the per capita and will help reduce poverty of a specific place. If possible, the government should guide or give its people free lectures on planning. If government won’t cooperate or will just disregard this issue many people will still continue to suffer and remain uneducated still because of lack of care and poverty. But then, the bottom line of this is, nobody is ever born with money attached to his body, instead, he is given his own feet to use it to stand on his own.
