Technological progress and development have broken the advent of a materialistic world.  Many   people in the urban and rural settings are explicitly and implicitly influenced by the global commercialization.  In many instances the influx of westernized culture covers the innate and distinctive attitudes of who we really are every now and then. 

People from all walks of life keep on rushing at home and down the streets to meet the daily earnings.  The rich and the famous are threading their wealth and pushing them beyond the limits of power and money dictated paradise.
Nevertheless, while the colleges and universities of the rich enjoy the pericope of a wealthy atmosphere, the irony of life’s existence for the poor tends to bombard the broken and the incurable wounds of injustices, inequalities and alienations of the less privileged human creatures.

Allow me to share with you the meaningfulness of my two days’ stay at Sabang Adgawan which is popularly known as the floating barangay of La Paz municipality in the province of Agusan del Sur.  As I immersed myself and became one of the residents of this barangay, I was moved with pity.  My heart was wrecked into pieces knowing the community’s pains and sacrifices in almost a century.

While the rich, the powerful and the most privileged people are enjoying the paramount heaven of abundance, the poor community of Sabang Adgawan is streaming tears and sweat just even enough to taste a purgatorial happiness of reducing their hardships.

I call the attention of the benevolent and highly regarded people concerned on these matters. Hadn’t you promised the voting public of a rose garden?  Where were you when people needed you most? Where were you  whom the people trusted so much and whom they believed to have the heart for the poor?   If one is shadowed by greed, who will initiate the road to progress and development?   Now is the right time to begin the newness of today and enkindle the light of hope!   Remember, in the depth of every one of us there is always goodness. Share that goodness to everyone because we live only once in this world and we may never pass this way again. (Reflections and Insights of Mr. Noel Viernes, Community Development Facilitator of PhilDHRRA CONVENIO  Project in Caraga).