ROBERTO (not
his real name) is a sophomore at the Jose Panganiban National High School and
an honor student.
At his young
age, he’s keen on becoming a medical doctor one day.
However,
throughout the two years of schooling, he was bogged down by difficulties
catching up with school projects.
He’s only a son
of a poor family at Baranggay Santa Rosa Norte, in Mambulao, a municipality
that is trying to wriggle out of the cocoon of a second class community and to
fly someday like a butterfly towards a top earning first-class economy.
His father
early on stopped working due to health problems and his only source of income
to support him and his two other siblings is thru crafting and selling “walis
tambo” (grass broom) in the local market.
A year earlier,
Roberto's mother abandoned them and ran away with another man when his father
could no longer find steady job to bring enough food to the table and meet the
other basic needs of the family, now in disarray with the mother gone.
“Mahirap pong
talaga ang dinadaanan ko dito (It's been a tough road that I went through),” he
said told with sadness a social worker who was doing a survey of indigent
families in the community at that time.
“Dalawang buwan na lang po ay fifteen years old na ako
… sana, bukod po sa pagtulong-tulong naming magkakapatid sa aming tatay sa
paggawa ng “walis tambo” ay makakuha ako ng trabaho … o di kaya’y magkaroon ako ng pampuhunan para magnegosyo
ng pangsarili (within the next two months, I'll turn fifteen … how I wish to
have a job of my own or a business to run aside from helping our father make
"walis tambo … how I wish someone was providing me a seed money to put up
a small business of my own),” Roberto said with such a positive tone.
For him to be
considered for Mambulao-LGU livelihood as beneficiary of the Sulong
Kabuhayan Kariton project, he should qualify first, for which he won’t due to
age reason.
But as an
option – he could be trained, and he should qualify very easily considering his
enthusiasm to improve his lot in the future.
Which means
that today’s difficulties are no barrier to his attaining success tomorrow.
Mambulaoans
Worldwide Buzz Online News’ initiative in partnering the Mambulao-LGU in a
livelihood entrepreneurship to help our poor but deserving brothers and sister
shows its ardent commitment in taking charge to give fulfillment to those
untold dreams like that of Roberto’s into a reality.
BWBuzz can’t do
no less.
Percy
A Ostonal
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