Who is to blame? The husband, perhaps? The mother? Is the church really helping them out by giving them free lugaw or should it help educate them in the ways of birth control? Are the NGOs helping them or teaching them how to be dependent on charity? Is it charity in the first place or something else?
The Catholic Church has been actively campaigning to continue to deprive the likes of the Tederanes couple to information and education on birth control. Do church officials try to salve their conscience by thinking that they have done their moral duties by giving away free lugaw?
Based on the report, nothing else comes with the free lugaw. No attempts to bring families like Jonas’ to the attention of social services. And there are so many of them on the streets of Metro Manila. No attempts to work with other institutions that can provide the children, at least, with shelter, food and education. In short, this is about giving alms to beggars. And alms will not transform them into self-respecting human beings. Jonas’ mother herself said it. Neither she nor her husband want to live the way they do forever. She said she was willing to work, even as a laundrywoman, so they can live with money that they earn from their own efforts.
What is is with the government, the church and these so-called charitable NGOs? Listen to what they people say. Listen and hear. Get off your high horses and wipe off all the hypocritical benevolence. My gosh, do they really think that they are being decent human beings by giving away free lugaw…
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