November 16, 2012

• Halad sa kapamilya

  Events

  Last November 10, The FREEMAN Foundation headed by The FREEMAN's general manager Melandro M. Mendoza, joined ABS-CBN's festival of free services dubbed Halad sa Kapamilya (Gift to our family).

  

  This event is a twice-a-year activity of the TV giant, and always, The FREEMAN is there to join. 

  

  Our role this year was to feed those who will join the fair, and for the half day that we were there, we were able to serve more than 2,200 people. Most of them were indigents and were there for the free medical, dental, and optical services.

  

  As much as I would like to say that it was a very fulfilling morning, I could not help but be depressed at the sight of the thousands of people desperately needing the help of government. 

  

  Charitable activities like this are not sustainable, and even if there was a job fair, well, we have to admit it that the jobs being offered at the fair are not meaningful at all - underpaid and contractual for at least 3 months. So, really, it is not the solution to my country's problem on poverty.

  

  Election is coming in 2013 and as much as I am hoping for the best, I have to admit that in the Philippines, hope will always remain as that, hope. It never becomes fulfilled with all the empty promises of politicians, which, unfortunately, are the favorites of the majority of the Filipino people, who by the way are suffering from poverty.

  

  I guess this is reality and as I said, we can only hope for the best.

  Photos by Ferdinand Edralin / The FREEMAN

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