“Money makes the world go round” that’s what they say. Money plays an
important role in our lives; it is money which often dictates one’s power -
more money, more power, more recognized; less money, less power, unrecognized.
A problem worldwide is the unequal distribution of the money. The rich gets
richer and the poor gets poorer. While the rich is
constantly having big houses, the poor is constantly struggling to get a house
well built. The rich often raises less children while
the poor believes that more children would lead them better future. We always
have the developed sites in which we often put our attention to. On the other
hand, we don’t pay attention to the squatters living in dirty corners of our
nation. This for me is a big and universal problem – poverty.
Poverty can be seen anywhere in the Philippines. The squatters live
anywhere possible – by the rails, riverside, under the bridge or even on
sidewalks. We see them often but we don’t pay attention to their numbers. These
squatters were actually descendants of people affected by the war and
descendants of province people searching for success in Manila.
