July
21, 2012
My group was supposed to visit RAC
again for the second time today; however, we had to cancel our activity due to
the storm. We already planned everything
for this visit. We had all the games and
activities in mind, along with the food, prizes, and give-away for the
children. The time of our visit was supposed
to be from 9:00 am until 12:00 noon. In
fact, we already promised the children in RAC that we will visit today and they
were all excited for this day. As a
group, we decided to accommodate more children tomorrow since we will be having
interactive games, which will for sure be extremely fun.
Unfortunately, when I woke up at 7:30 am, I
was shocked to see how hard the rain was.
On top of that, Taft was already flooded, as well! As much as I did not want to cancel our
service learning visit at RAC, my group decided to cancel it because we were
worried about our safety too. Our
parents were worried about us since there might be a possibility that we can
get stranded in Manila, due to the rain and flood. The picture below shows how flooded Taft gets
when it rains extremely hard.
It made me realize how horrible the
state of our country is in. It seems as
if the Filipinos do not even care about our environment. First of all, I think that the government is
the main person to blame for the flooding in the Philippines. They already know that our country is always
hit by horrible typhoons, and so, they should take the initiative to improve our
water management. Our dams should be
maintained properly or constantly improved, so that they will not easily
collapse, which may result to flooding.
Also, come to think of it, our roads would not be flooded if we,
Filipino citizens, are responsible enough to take care of our wastes. A lot of people just throw their garbage in
the roads, which blocks the flow of water upon draining. We really need to work on this as soon as
possible because this is ruining our surroundings.
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