Poverty In The Philippines
In this video, you’ll see more of the poverty in the Philippines. There is so much poverty in the Philippines it is easy to feel helpless in helping at all. Far too often we do nothing and are even inconvenienced by those that live it. How dare we!
You’ll also see the smile and charm of a sweet 11 year old girl that looks up to her friend that scavenges to help her family. She works in the landfill due to the poverty in the Philippines.
UPDATE: The users account was terminated for content theft so the video is not longer available. 
I hope you’ll remember this video the next time you come across a beggar in the streets.
So often we complain about being bothered by them. So often we justify not giving because the money goes to the syndicate or organized crime of the Philippines.
Poverty In The Philippines Brings Many Homeless Children
So what, let it go to them. The kids in the street wouldn’t be doing this if they didn’t gain something from it.
One thing I’m certain of, a little kindness can go a long way toward the prevention of hardened adults. With rampant poverty in the Philippines, people need our help.
Father and Son Sleeping on The Streets of the Philippines
If we all helped a little, maybe these children wouldn’t grow up to be heart hardened adults. I don’t know how much it will help but doing nothing will hurt.
So we can’t give enough to solve the poverty in the Philippines. I can’t give enough. Not long after I came here I gave a child what I had in my pocket. I had no idea what I was giving. The child scoffed at my gift and it hardened my heart. The ungrateful child’s reaction was poor but so was mine. I need to do better.
I even feel peer pressure not to help at all. To heck with that pressure. We need to do what is right.
Maybe we can’t each do a lot to help those people living in the Philippines but we can do a little. Do that, accept your limitations but help in some small way to alleviate poverty in the Philippines.
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“How dare we!”
“I need to do better.”
“To heck with that pressure. We need to do what is right.”
I have been questioning myself when it comes to one area.
Sometimes, we have beggers that come to the house. If I give them anything they keep coming back. I’ve decided now that it isn’t a good idea to give to these people. It is inviting trouble.
Hi Rusty: Just something to share with you about poverty. I visited my parents’ graves on my last visit in the Philippines. I wasn’t there when they passed away. This was my very first visit in a graveyard (in my adult years in the Philippines). I noticed that a young 10-year old girl was wiping the tiled graves with a towel and a plastic bucket (with water). One of my late parent’s helpers (who accompanied me) handed her a centavo coin. (Can’t remember the denomination, but one of those bronze ones.) The helper explain that she is the daughter of the assigned caretaker of that section of the graveyard. My heart ached as this was a school day and it occurred to me that this child is already working in the graveyard instead of attending school. I ran out of peso currency that day and all I had was a paper 20 peso currency. On my way out, I handed it to her and requested for her to take care of the graves. I explained that I am handing her a larger fee as I am working outside the country and won’t be returning for a while. She smiled and accepted the bill graciously and promised that she will “always” take care of the resting elders. I wished that I could have done more, but we had to leave the country the next day.
Thanks for sharing.
Many children are too poor to go to school or the family sends them out to work. Or like the girls in one of these videos, the family says they try to make her go to school but she wont go. In any case, the cycle continues.
They have her working, I hope it is to teach her about the value of work.
I’ve not seen that. The graveyards I know of in Bogo are often run down, crypts are broken sometimes. Especially the ones off from the road. I think there is a well kept one here some place in Bogo though I’ve never seen it.
It is about time that our rich and very rich businessmen/businesswomen in our country must start from their own companies. They must stop contractualization and must pay their employees decent salary. Decent salary means an employee is able to afford to eat healthy food and drink clean water daily, able to rent/buy a reasonable size condo/apartment (from 1 to 2 bedrooms), with appropriate public and private life and health insurance coverage, clothing requirements, transportation and at least annual/every two years vacation benefits and lastly retirement benefits.
Sadly, most of the companies they own will not hire those who are 45 years old and above. These people who are rejected/discriminated will end up looking for work abroad, worst, others stay in our country for years being unproductive without work or means of livelihood.
This practice creates poverty and this is very prevalent in the Philippines – (is it like traffic in EDSA, like pollution in our cities, like denuded forests and destroyed coral reefs?) – imagine these are our leaders in business and government, with degrees left and right from very reputable schools/universities.
These people are getting richer and richer and the gap between the rich and the poor is obviously getting wider and wider. If the labour group ask for a modest amount of salary increase, their always reason is many companies will close shop. etc. So many reasons, so many excuses, so many negotiations, so many waste of precious time and lost opportunities.
This affects not only the poor but also them, their relationships with their countrymen and and in the end their country as a whole. There are two sins they cannot escape, the sin of commission and the sin of omission.
There is a need to bring conscience back – if you have buried them, raise it up and nurture it. Now (not tomorrow) is the time to act out what is required, to be socially responsible (forget it they are mostly lip service). Or are their conscience already seared?
Please, it is never too late to change for the better and eventually for the best.
God bless the Philippines!
Hi Wally, wish I could offer some encouragement but I can’t!
45? Most of the ads I see for workers are looking for under 25. Management jobs a little older, usually around 30.
It is my perception and you can correct me if I’m wrong that if you’re Filipino and not working by 25 your chances of obtaining work is virtually zero. I must say though, the ads I have seen are in Cebu. I have known people that say the can find work in Manila.
I’ve even seen Filipino claim that Filipino are lazy and can find work if they try. One held up an example of a friend that came from Leyte to Cebu to find work but he was about 21.
If one can pull it off, working for themselves is the way to go. Even a roadside eatery would seem a more likely choice. Hard work and and hard to get ahead that way but with a lot of will power, I THINK someone that is poor could maybe make that work. Just from my limited observations though.
I tell you though, anyone can make money online. Good English helps though and a LOT of time. It usually takes time to learn how to do it and yes, I’m afraid a little money. Even $20 a month can be a significant outlay for the poor. It would be hard to make money online for less than $10 a month. And for the first year, most people wont earn that money back so if getting your daily meal is an issue and for many it is, that just isn’t possible.