I as a Filipino, and a part of the youth am proud and satisfied of how the economy has been growing according to the news. Yeah, but as my mom has said "Mga mayayaman lang ang naapektohan diyan (Only the rich is affected by it [Economic Growth]). For a sec, I thought, yeah maybe that is true.
I just came back from a trip to the province, I was with my mom, sister, cousin and uncle we hitched with them on their car, because they live in Antipolo, we decided to come there too, we arrived safely, we were about to park yet there was this skinny figure scavenging for stuff from a drum that served as a trashcan, my uncle honked his horn to get the person's sidecar out of the way, he looked up and unsurprisingly he's just a kid who was in my estimate between the ages of 12 and 15.
Walk in the streets of Manila, you couldn't go a kilometer without seeing small troops of kids pushing carts filled with scrap metal, plastic bottles and the like, walk further and you'd see little beggars, worse is during nighttime where you wouldn't miss bumping into a teen prostitute especially in Manila's red light district of Ermita, is this progress? I guess not. Leave the authorities to deal with it? Oh please, some of them are making this a syndicated business for crying out loud, they act as "protectors" for a percentage of the money they would earn in begging, scavenging and prostitution and as long as they give money no-one could ever arrest them, get them into centers and such.
So the conclusion? Well they're still everywhere you go, suffering hunger & hardships which as children they shouldn't suffer from. A good suggestion for everyone? If y'all want a good, safe and progressive future, we must all invest for it, starting from protecting the children of today, for they are the future, we may not know. One of those exploited and abused kids might be the next brilliant leader, inventor or scientist.
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