Sunday, May 25, 2008

poverty


So Mom wanted me to get more than just conventional education here in the Philippines. But actually learn the struggles of my fellow Filipinos.

As I get to live here and observe the things around me. I noticed that a lot of Filipinos are so proud of the place called Mall of Asia. Which I was told the 3rd Largest Mall in the world the the Largest in all of Asia. As you can see the picture above that it's a huge mall. But what surprises me isn't at the mall it's what's across the highway.

People living in shacks, kids begging for money just to give to there so called parents. It's nuts, such an impoverished nation with it's huge bulk of it's population poverty stricken could house a huge mall like that. I don't want to judge but I know there are benefits to having a mall that huge. It creates jobs for more people and these malls are packed w/people. But how much could this be a of a positive impact on the economy. I think there should be more efforts in educating the masses and maybe we can pull ourselves out of poverty and be able to afford the things across the highway.