Pauvres

     If you are living in Asia, particularly in India, Japan, and Taiwan, you are in the midst of people of different religions and status with long history and wealth traditions. If you are living in Israel or Jordan, you are mixing with other Christians, mostly Catholic and orthodox, and Jews and Muslims.

      I say, if you are in the Philippines, you are a part majority of people who suffers from distress. I did research not for the cause of anything but nevertheless for the grounds of my concerns.

     On the fateful mornings of life, the tramp of two less fortunate people seize my thought for almost 13 years. these two penniless beggars; a mother and son were time and again been wandering in the bounds of our Jaro plaza like nomads, they were at times fed by kind sidewalk vendors who is also suffering from scarcity of basic needs. It’s ironic to think that no one from the government and NGO’s have had noticed them. 

     Maybe they were just one evident to the ignorance of the tightfisted local leaders who had excess wealth and may have been pretending sightless. This maybe just, one form of unfreedom such as malnutrition, little access to health care, sanitary arrangements, clean water and the lack of education for the futures of our motherland.  The situation of these two beggars is only a tiny portion on the alarming expansion of poverty. Blame does not suggest in this blog but a truth that  could blind off others and be fully present to the context were are; entering into a dialogue with others with an attitude of openness to prompt them to be servant-leaders themselves. There are more than half of the marginalized people which stories are yet to be told. Poverty does not only come from the scarcity of a house but a home. It is one dilemma that needs to be given awareness for the lungs of entire motherland does not evolve to well-off people but for all the rest of the population regardless of status.