SLEEPLESSNaga City
Naga's been awarded recently as one of the country's
Most Child Friendly Cities. But wait, ponder on this.
Early one weekend, after biking, I took this picture
while taking a sip of fresh buko sold beside a
business establishment where these two kids were sleeping.
I would have wanted to buy them fresh buko,
but it seemed they were sleepless.
7 comments:
did you ask permission sir? sometimes people get offended when i take pictures of random people without their permission.
by the way, do you know what a haiku photo is?
you see, since you're good with haikus and photography, you can make a haiku photo.
example: http://www.phsa.edu.ph/images/VARIATIONSlow.pdf
page 7 of 12
it's like blue and gold, except variations, var as we call it, joins in high school press conferences. please check it out sir
naka-dekwatro pa talaga yung isang bata habang natutulog... kawawa naman ang mga bata, siguro kung gising sila they'd be thankful for your buko juice. i hope they won't ask for money though! lalo na kung ipansusugal lang :(
What are you trying to say? That there are kids in Naga City that sleep on benches during the day?
I live in Naga City and from personal experience I can tell you that we have much less of a problem with poverty and street kids than one will find in almost any other city in the Philippines. The percentage of people living in poverty is in the teens where almost anywhere else it runs around 40%.
I just returned from Manila where walking down the street I would be surrounded by eight to ten street kids that hadn't bathed in days if not weeks had no shoes and dirty cloths all begging for food or money.
While you will find the occasional child begging in Naga City it is not common. Apparently these kids were not to hungry or they would have been awake begging from you. They also looked pretty clean and had clean cloths and trimmed hair.
Jim: I don't know Naga City and as such I can't say if what you tell is the truth. I know by fact that Bicol is one of the poorest region of the Philippines (My wife is from Sorsogon).
We should not deny or hide poverty but we should work towards improving the life of the less fortunate.
Ooh issue. There may still be relatively fewer streetkids in Naga now (compared to other cities like here in NCR), but to put it in perspective, there was virtually none a couple of decades ago. This is one of the dangers of urbanization, and I hope that every Nagueño (no, not just City Hall) may be able to handle this before it blows to Metro Manila proportions.
Thanks everyone! I am happy I make paeople aware of the biting reality in our country.
awwww I love the idea of a child friendly city where children can safely take a nap wherever they would like
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