GUTOM

I just want to share with you what I wrote on my short synopsis for Economics on
the documentary Sir Adorable-h (ador-ablehhh) made us watch
last week entitled

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GUTOM: A POVERTY DOCUMENTATION IN THE PHILIPPINES. A not-so-old short docu dated back
in 2006. Well, it was actually I-Witness’ and Jay Taruc’s documentary
and not Sir Adorable’s hehe! Pretty interesting. Kinda made me wonder
why the hell did I miss that on tv. *scratches nose and pouts* hehehe!

The short documentary was about GUTOM (hunger), a factual assessment of what’s happening here in our country. Reporter Jay Taruc volunteered to immerse himself for 7 days among the families who were part of the growing reality that is hitting the Philippines. There were 3 Baranggays that were featured in the film, mainly Baranggay Pinagsabugan, Baranggay Baseco and Pier – Port Area, all of which depicted what SWS was referring to, “more than 2 million families experience hunger and that is one out of every six Filipinos.” These families wake up every day battling the fight against hunger. They are deprived of eating three square meals a day. Parents strive hard, work non-stop and are paid with merely P100 to P200 a day for the service they render. The money in turn, is spent for a “decent” meal. They have learned to stretch out the few pesos they earn just to ease their hunger. Families feast on rice and soup or even bread and coffee — not knowing that the single meal they take from the money they earn, may be the last meal they will have to eat for the rest of the remaining hours of the day.

“Altanghap” and “Kaninbaw” are just everyday words for these people. They cope with hunger through eating rice mixed with soup (kaninbaw) and breakfast-lunch-dinner combined into a single meal (altanghap) every day of the week. Children become the core victims of the said pattern of eating because parents are not aware of the health risks this kind of living can bring forth to. Kids become prone to sickness in which makes them relatively weak and small. This brings forth, malnutrition to the poor.

The SWS states that an average poor Filipino family misses eating one day every three months. But as to what the documentary narrates to all of us, it is clearly FAR worse than that of what is indicated in the survey.

Hmmmm.. so ano? pasalamat na ba kayo na kumakain kayo ng maayos at namumhay ng matiwasay sa inaraw- araw? I know I did.

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