Philippine Corruption
The Philippines is one of the country who has been suffering to the bondage of corruption, a truth that encouraged me to write this essay hoping that my voice as a youth would be heard, though this is just a simple draft for others but hope that this would be enough to awake all the people who are concern upon this crisis that all of us to suffer its effects. I would like to start this essay with all the simple things that I have observed for my 19 years of living in this country of mine.
One time I was walking along a sidewalk it was a very fine day, I was doing my small steps going to school were I need to have my day finish with new ideas that I need. For me education is very important in the development of our self-actualization, a treasure that each one of us really need, to be able to live together with changes that accompanies us in this world. Many are given opportunity to go to school, but many also are not lucky enough to have the same opportunity like other else do. Along that sidewalk where I was walking were young children, their not wearing a clean school uniform, or any clean cloth to serve as their body cover, every time I pass that area and saw their pity portrait I always think of one thing, how are they able to live and survive that way? Some of these children are selling sampaguita flowers on the church, some are begging for alms with the people to whom that will just pass that place and when night comes that same place will serve as the place for their rest, cover themselves with pieces of newspaper to protect them from the cold temperature of the night if their not lucky enough in time of rain they need to get up and go to the plaza where there is a little roof that will protect them from droplets of the rain, everyday that’s the life that they always need to face far from some children whom I see to have their way who can go to school and after a time of study would just go to internet cafes or some other places where they waste time, money and effort than valuing their time to learn new things. This street children did not wish to live to a place where they are now, that was not the place that they were dreaming of, if only each of us are given only little opportunity to read the minds of this children living along that sidewalk, we would be able to know how terrible their life is living along that sidewalk. Hope that each of us would do our best to become a bridge between this children and the government, if only were concern enough we could serve as the voice of this children, we could even help them express the thoughts that they hid just from within them, we could even make other people understand what they don’t understand about this children let us try to lead them in a place that will guide them as they grew up, a place that will teach them to live their life with full confidence with themselves, a place that will give them a treasure that no one else could ever still and that treasure would education it’s simple but yet enough to save this children from that place where they’re not suppose to be.
More than 50% of the Filipinos are suffering malnutrition. Some of us are eating more than 3 times a day, some are just wasted and the food being wasted everyday is not only a plate but more than 2-3 sacks of food a day or more than that, we only throw food, it’s a fact that the country has much food to give, more than enough than we could imagine, it’s just that we don’t learn to preserve every food that we have for future needs. Another is the overpricing on the goods that we buy in stores some of us can’t afford to buy food anymore that even a piece of “Pan De Sal” would be causing us 1.50 Php is that not embarrassing? Don’t we get shame that we were able to export food outside the country but we are suffering for hunger here in the Philippines? How could we do to give what we have to others which are in fact intentionally provided for our fellow Filipinos? Hope that before we throw our plate full of wasted food hope that were also able to think that there are more people around the world who once dreamed that they could eat even that wasted food on our plate, or hope that before we increase the prices of our goods lets think of the status of those who buy for those goods, or before we export food outside let us try to see who are still in need of the food that were going to export. Let us not be too blind of what is happening in our community let us start from simple things that will help us minimize the problem of malnutrition.
If we only open our eyes to the facts happening around us we would be able to see many bad effects of corruption to our country, many of us knew the truth but didn’t have the chance to open up what they know in public because they were terrorized by the power that this big people possesed, that at any moment they’ll be sentenced to death. Our country has no improvement because even us doesn’t think of ways to improve our own lives. We only think of lux and forget our own responsibility, we always comment and kept on saying that we want to erase the vengeance of corruption which is the main reason why we live a misserable life right now, we kept on judging other people, we kept on believing on what others do say, but do we make an action to defeat corruption? To know the truth? Do we help in the improvement of the country or just wait for what may come? How many children and innocent people does need to suffer and pay before we do an action? When our country is sold to other country? Everyday billions of money were being wasted because of canceled projects, everyday billions of people became homeless because they don’t have a permanent place to live, everyday billions of people suffer from hunger because they have nothing to eat on their tables, everyday our life becomes more misserable just because of one simple problem. Let us not wait for the time when our country is already totally nothing before we act, let us be honest in whatever we do and with that simple rule we can simply save those billions of bad possibilities and create billions of new posibilities for the improvement of the country.
