Marikina, Cainta, Pasig, Pasay, Navotas, Malabon and all the other eastern lying towns of Metro Manila is in such deep shit. Shit caused by Typhoon Ondoy. Dead people, dead animals, mud, and garbage litter these areas. It will take a lifetime to erase this nightmare. As victims troop to the evacuation centers, one is wont to ask—so what is next?
SIMPLE SOLUTION. Establish a FOREVER KITCHEN SOUP in every affected barangay or town. Whip up a round the clock meal service fueled by food surplus by restaurants, hotels, malls, food center, even from the palengke. Have this center open FOREVER serviced by volunteers or residents themselves. Food donations can only last that long.
Another SOUND CURE. The hefty donations collected by ABS-CBN can be given as a housing fund to a developer with sound business ethics. A 51 Million peso collection is good enough to build small houses. In fact all donations can be pooled altogether into this scheme.
These people have no homes to go back to, no money to buy anything, no nothing -headless chickens running blind struck by Mother Nature. It takes more than charity to whip them back into shape.
Let us start now. (And in starting also remember that life is so fragile that a torrent of rain can drown us in seconds.)
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