by: France
It is evident in our society that poverty is one of
the major quandaries ravaging our country and its people. Poverty is a state in
which a person or community lacks the financial resources and essentials to
enjoy a minimum standard of life and well-being that's considered acceptable in
society. More than 26 million Filipinos remain poor with almost half, or a
little more than 12 million, living in extreme poverty and lacking the means to
feed themselves, according to official government statistics for the first
semester of 2015 (Inquirer, 2015). The film overall displayed the state of our
destitute countrymen inside a dissonance society. The portrait that the artist
had painted reminds us about the wretched condition of our street children that
lacks daily source of food and shelter.
“I see humans
but no humanity.”
-
Jason Donohue
Once
again, I heard a beat of my heart while watching the film due to the fact that
it speaks the reality of poverty here in the Philippines. The cruel reality in
which some of us are lucky enough to have a home and food to eat, but some are
deprived of these because they exist in the remains of our bones and ashes. In
solitary, they sung the lacerated lullabies wishing that someone will hear this
and lend them a helping hand to lift them up away from the pit of misery and
despair. After seeing their heartbreaking situation, it made me realize how
gifted I am. It also opened my eyes wider about the view of impoverishment and
beggary happening around me. The message of helping those who are in need is
already engraved in my heart and soul. It ignited my passion to help even more
those under the cold sheet of poverty. Only if each of us got this fiery ember
in our hearts inflamed by passion to help others and generosity to offer then
we can able to make this place a better place to live where genuine smile is
shown everywhere.
