Living on the island

. Who wouldn’t want to live on an island in the tropics? The sun kissing your skin, wind blowing in your face as you leisurely enjoy the effects of a cocktail or a stiff drink, surrounded by powdery white sand. All the right ingredients to forget the stress in your life.

Last Saturday, I took a Grab car to Ongpin St. in Chinatown and Waze directed the driver to pass the South Superhighway now called Osmeña Highway. It’s a route I rarely take and after seeing the poverty and inhumane conditions of adults and toddlers , I simply could not “move on” or forget it. Sorry, but that is utter bulls**t and the workings of people who are part of the problem and never the solution. How can people sprawled on the hot dusty polluted islands of Metro Manila be members of a “syndicate?” They can barely walk, they are passed out and starving and when starvation causes them to be delusional, we assume they are on drugs.

What is the Human Rights Commission doing about this particular problem? What is Congress doing in terms of passing a law that recognizes the human rights of the “dirt poor” and mandating their reintegration as productive citizens? While both institutions are busy kicking up dirt about human rights violations against leftists and drug users, I have not heard or seen any consistent effort or commitment to help the helpless and forsaken.

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