Fighting Poverty

The Philippines was the first Asian colony to declare independence when the struggle for freedom against the waning tide of colonialism was sweeping the globe. After world war II we were only second to Japan in economic and industrial growth and yet today we are among the last in the East Asian region.

By 1997, we were already well on the way to becoming a tiger economy but our choice of incompetent leadership ruined the enormous gains that we had achieved. We were the least affected by the 1997 Asian financial crisis-have now surpassed our recovery by leaps and bounds. We ousted a very popular president for abuse of power and corruption. We spent billions of pesos for a computerized voting system to eliminate electoral fraud. But millions of voters were instantaneously disenfranchised through the automation of the election process like jumping from the frying pan into the fire.

In 2009 a national tragedy struck causing numerous deaths and extensive damage to property from severe flooding of Metro Manila. The Philippines sits on the path of typhoons, 20 of which, on average, hit the country every year. That would be more than enough reason to continually improve our preparedness for calamities. And yet we still keep on  experiencing  preventable, costly, and tragic casualties and losses.

Rice is our staple crop. Every new administration always vows to achieve rice sufficiency. And yet we continue to be heavily dependent on rice imported from our Asian neighbors. Because of the severe and seemingly permanent shortage of jobs, many Filipinos have been forced to seek employment in other countries. Their yearly remittances, which reached $17 billion in 2009, have long been the country’s Insurance against financial collapse. And yet, the government almost always fails to help them when they are exploited or violated by their employers.

Today the population stands at an alarming 100 million, with the poverty incidence rising, draining our resources, depriving our people of much-needed basic services, and further heightening their sufferings. But the government has not been able to set up an effective program to check the rapid population growth.

While the other people live in appropriate and extravagance life, there’s a lot of people are suffered for starvation, left on the street, with ruined health and unfeasible for education.

What is the root cause why it was happened many years ago and until now? They say improper governance and rapid population growth.This is a reality alarming situation in our country; we are facing a wrong and corrupt government and the rapid growth of population.

Nowadays, President PNoy addresses the problem of the government governance; he imposed many rules, cost cutting and other ways on how the country will move out from poverty.

The bible says “go to the world and multiply,” It doesn’t mean that we need to multiply without limitation. It’s not practical that the children will compromise from poverty or to ruin their life. The bible says “Jesus love the little children,” children is the most affected from poverty. There’s no need to debate. It means population control is acceptable by God’s law.

    

To overcome the problem we need to impose and practice the limitation of child in every family’s.The government can’t do it alone. The church must help, as part of its prophetic ministry, and the community too.

    

 I strongly believe that, with the help of the, NGO’s, government, churches, and the community, the poverty will be eradicated and the next generation of children will know this problem just as a history.