Flooded with relief (updated)

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1. this is plainly another “kambyo” from the government.
   another project to counter the “blog ni ella”.

   kala mo sobrang haba ng sinulat mo e mabobored kami at maniniwala na lang?!?

   tsk.. tsk.. nice try buddy, but it didnt worked.

2. Wow! So much talk and so many extra issues.

   I personally went there this afternoon to (1) help move the goods that were supposed to be not moving and (2) see for myself what’s happening and see what else I can do. (MLQ3, thanks for quoting my blog. I wanted to clarify things for myself and hopefully for others. I did not insinuate that original blogger talked about pilferage. I was just clarifying through issues that could be going in people’s minds.)

   To everyone who has not gone there, stop the talk and go there before you pass any judgment.

   As far as I could actually see for myself, the DSWD, UNICEF personnel, volunteers were working as hard as they can and sweating it out there, getting cuts in their arms trying to insert those blankets inside the water jugs.

   I see a lot of people talking and commenting in this blog. While I will kill and die to defend your right to free speech and expression, I want to request that you please stop for a while and just go there, if not to see for yourselves what is happening but to lend a hand. I twitted, FBed, SMS, called everyone I know and only 15 came earlier. We need all the hands and less talk.

   Can things be improved there? Yes!

   I may disagree with how DSWD is managing the packing lines but I understand it. I wouldn’t have if I didn’t go. The DSWD warehouse management is limiting the number of volunteers, a choice they made because it may have been to them the most optimal way to manage the process better. I disagree with it and think the warehouses could handle more (if more volunteers come) but I feel that it was done with the good intentions of delivering the goods where they are needed. I feel no malice.

   My suggestion: recruit line managers, delegate responsibility to them and have 24/7 shifts. (Assuming volunteers come.)

   There’s also a very obvious communication problem. I do not personally know Dr. Cabral but it seems to me that what she thought at her level was implemented, was not implemented down the line, eg security guards blowing off would be volunteers. This happens in any organization.

   My suggestion: As soon as the 24/7 production line is organized, get everyone in the organization on the same page, including and especially the guards and the front office for they are what volunteers encounter first. (If I didn’t ask for UNICEF none of the people would have suggested it and I would have spending that Saturday afternoon reading your blogs instead of stuffing pots and soaps in sacks.) Then recruit, recruit volunteers. Many are willing.

   Are the goods going to where they are intended? I don’t know.

   Suggestion: Call Dr. Cabral and find out how you can help with deployment. Then go with the deployment teams. Then you can see it first hand and give it from your hand to hand of the very person receiving the goods.

   There are a lot of corruption in the government but not everyone is corrupt. There’s a lot of things that needs to be improved in the way the government is handling things. Question is: “Are you just gonna talk about it or get up and do something?”

   From someone who’s been there and still trying to do that.

3. Going there to help out.

4. People, you are falling into the paternal trap. Ganito rin parents natin, napaka manipulative, binabaliktad ang issue at sila palagi ang tama. The difference: our parents only want the best for us. Ito, mga manloloko lang. Pinapa-guilty pa tayo.

   Wag nyong awayin kapwa ninyo citizens. Hindi kailanga ng kakampi ang DSWD, eh Gobyerno yan. If you want to volunteer because it makes you feel better, go ahead. Tutal naman hindi mo talaga mababago ang mga kurakot. Ang pwede lang gawin sa kanila eh bantayan.

   To those people who belittle the part being played by “spectators,” listen to me. We all do our part. We work, pay our taxes, we obey the law. Some people volunteer, they give to charity, but being charitable doesn’t give you more right, being a participant or a player doesn’t give you special status in a democracy.

   To verify DSWD’s explanation, simply visit a few refugee centers. If you find families there needing blankets, clothes, food, etc.,then you know who’s lying and who’s exaggerating.

   If we were unfair to DSWD then sorry nalang, but that is democracy. We err on the side of free speech. I’m not encouraging slander or libel, but as far as EllenGanda is concerned she merely reacted to the bounty of relief goods inside the DSWD warehouse. My own experience tells me relief goods are often converted to ukay-ukay. I’ve been to some of these ukay-ukays (these are the really low-end ukay-ukays selling t-shirts for 5 pesos) and the people selling them would openly admit they were relief goods. There were also rumors that some legit retailers would buy relief goods and sell them as regular store merchandise. Rumors lang. If DSWD’s conscience is clear, good. We trust the disaster victims would have relief made available to them for many weeks to come.

5. People, you are falling into the paternal trap. Ganito rin parents natin, napaka manipulative, binabaliktad ang issue at sila palagi ang tama. The difference: our parents only want the best for us. Ito, mga manloloko lang. Pinapa-guilty pa tayo.
   — your parents manipulated you? No wonder you have so much distrust and misplaced anger.

   Wag nyong awayin kapwa ninyo citizens. Hindi kailanga ng kakampi ang DSWD, eh Gobyerno yan. If you want to volunteer because it makes you feel better, go ahead. Tutal naman hindi mo talaga mababago ang mga kurakot. Ang pwede lang gawin sa kanila eh bantayan.
   — again, another person who think the government is a singular entity devoid of all good. i suggest you run the government yourself then. but that might be misunderstood as volunteering which you’ve made very clear in your previous statement, is something you would never do. guarding or watching other people do somehting productive is hardly productive in itself

   To those people who belittle the part being played by “spectators,” listen to me. We all do our part. We work, pay our taxes, we obey the law. Some people volunteer, they give to charity, but being charitable doesn’t give you more right, being a participant or a player doesn’t give you special status in a democracy.
   — yes excatly, i believe platterofpeaches started all this “spectator” talk so you should probably address this to her!

   To verify DSWD’s explanation, simply visit a few refugee centers. If you find families there needing blankets, clothes, food, etc.,then you know who’s lying and who’s exaggerating.
   — so why don’t you do what Mr. Bacareza did? or are you scared to find the truth for yourself?

   If we were unfair to DSWD then sorry nalang,
   — ahhh, an admission of guilt

   but that is democracy. We err on the side of free speech. I’m not encouraging slander or libel, but as far as EllenGanda is concerned she merely reacted to the bounty of relief goods inside the DSWD warehouse.
   — and unfortunately for her, she must be held accountable for slander

   My own experience tells me relief goods are often converted to ukay-ukay. I’ve been to some of these ukay-ukays (these are the really low-end ukay-ukays selling t-shirts for 5 pesos) and the people selling them would openly admit they were relief goods. There were also rumors that some legit retailers would buy relief goods and sell them as regular store merchandise. Rumors lang.
   — exactly, rumors, rumors are not admissible in court!
   — its rumors like these, from people claiming of previous experiences that do harmful things like destroy the reputation of good people

   If DSWD’s conscience is clear, good. We trust the disaster victims would have relief made available to them for many weeks to come.
   — disaster victims cannot make relief goods available to themselves
   — now, it does not take a person “weeks” of relief goods to recover. how long do you think dole-outs are necessary before these people start acting independently
   — what of the people who abuse the system? are you watching guard over them as well?
   — if you are the guardian you claim your self to be? and this is your contribution to volunteerism, then you should be watching ALL involvled. not just those for whom you are biased against.

6. i want to share something. my sister is one of those who got affected by ondoy. she lives in don mariano subd. cainta. water filled the ground level of her 2-story apartment, and she got trapped in the second floor of her apartment for 2 days without food and water. when there was relief giving at cainta after a few days, the staff were asking for IDs. by golly, how can these people have IDs? almost all of their belongings were washed out by the flood. so she wasn’t able to get relief goods because she didn’t have ID. she walked to another center giving out relief goods. again, she was turned away, they told her the relief goods are only for flood victims. *$%#@@$$&*^$#@*!!!! that’s why my sister was there, because she was a flood victim!! again she got turned away. she has been starving for some days. so when the waters subsided and i was finally able to see her, i brought her to a restaurant so she could eat, and i also brought her clothes. my sister never got anything from the DSWD.

7. The truth of the matter is Cabral does not think that imported goods are fit for the consumption of the poor that she regards as animals and subhumans. She feels that imported items should not be wasted with these animals and to satisfy their needs by feeding or equipping them with these shiny utensils,Coleman lights and other quality goods would be an exercise in wastage. I know Cabral personally since she was director of the Heart Center and you should experience her calusness and it is frightening. But she loves the good things in life but I would not delve into that because I have no hard evidence to back up my claim but many will attest how she has mastered the art of stealing without being caught – ask the personnel of the Heart Center where she was petitioned out. My position is this – if she can do that at the Philippine Heart Center what more at DSWD where she is the sovereign queen and where the budget are in the billions. She’s just getting around us with her smiling face and girlish tone of voice because she has mastered the art of hypocrisy in front of the cameras. Her best friend they say is Miriam Santiago and as they say “birds of the same feather…get crazy together”. Need I say more? By the way I know many things about her because I am a relative of the late Director Finard Cabilao, our social welfare attache who was killed in Malaysia in the performance of his duty. People at DSWD know how the callus Cabral almost ignored to recognize the death and heroism of my cousin Finard. But maybe because of her advisers she attended his burial and after giving him a measly sum my cousin’s widow was appeased because of their want for money. Cabral is a user and is an evil person but we are comforted by the fact that she is suffering fron breast cancer. One of these days, the Social Welfare Association of the Philippines or SWEAP will stage a lightning rally that will spill the bowels of Cabral if she will not change her ways – her high handedness and her verbal brutality at DSWD. We will call for her ouster and we will not stop till she is thrown out of DSWD – a great institution that she is treating as her personal property. I’m calling all Social Work graduates of the University of the Philippines – my alma mater – to stand firm behind this call to action. She has to go soon, not in May or June 2010 but NOW……lET ME ADD THE FACT THAT WAS PROVEN CORRECT BY THE CONGLOMERATE OF HENRY SY OF SM – CABRAL IS RUSHING UP THE SALE OF THE GOLDEN ACRES COMPOUND SITUATED AT THE BACK OF SM AT NORTH AVENUE, QUEZON CITY FOR BILLIONS OF PESOS AND ACCORDING TO SOURCES SHE WOULD GET COMMISSIONS IN THIS TRANSACTION AND GUESS WHAT: SHE WILL BE THROWING THE OLD PEOPLE TO THE MOUNTAINS OF TANAY TO RESIDE BESIDE THE YOUNG CRIMINALS OF BOYS TOWN – SHE WILL DO ANYTHING FOR GOLD!!!!!

8. Have you also tried getting photos and data (from ABS-CBN, GMA, Philippine Red Cross, etc.)? warehouses? I think it would have been a better “journalistic” story if you also did a comparative study on all the organizations doing relief efforts. That way, you can compare how many volunteers, how goods are delivered, where to, etc. With the way you presented your story, you were downplaying the DSWD, when in fact you could have taken the issue intelligently by doing that study.

9. @apple – were those staff from the DSWD national office or regional office. please verify your fact first. if they were not from those offices, please refer to the devolution of social services. please be well informed.

10. @joby aquino – i bet you were not promoted. back up your allegations with data please.

11. – again, another person who think the government is a singular entity devoid of all good. i suggest you run the government yourself then. but that might be misunderstood as volunteering which you’ve made very clear in your previous statement, is something you would never do. guarding or watching other people do somehting productive is hardly productive in itself
    ————————————–

    Not “the” government, just THIS GOVERNMENT. Gloria and her minions (to include you.

    cybernothottie – the opposition need not spend for black propaganda against THIS government, it just has to BE ITSELF, its doing perfectly well showcasing corruption, incompetence, callousness, and stupidity in believing that hiring people like you can help at all. You and Grace shove it where the sun doesn’t shine!

12. anna,

    The pictures speak a thousand words…

13. @Joby – Wow, huwag ka namang sumigaw. Matanong ko close ba kayo ni Dr. Cabral? Tinanong mo ba siya bakit nangyari ang mga nangyari sa Heart Center? Hindi mo ba alam napulitika siya dun?
    Hindi mo ba alam ang lungkot niya sa nangyari sa Malaysia sa pinsan mo? O pinsan mo ba talaga yun at gumagawa ka lang ng personal attack kay Dr. Cabral?
    Hindi mo ba alam kung gaanong ka-dilapidated ang mga gusali ng DSWD pag pasok ni Dr. Cabral sa DSWD? Napakaliit ng budget nila nun pero napagawa niya mga yun! Ang dami na nyang nagawang maganda para sa DSWD. Alam mo ba yun?
    At hindi mo ba alam na relocation ang ginagawa sa mga taga Golden Acres kasi napaka-usok, polluted at fire hazard ang mga tirahan nila dun. FYI, wala siyang commission na makukuha dun.
    Ako, nagtatanong muna ako sa mga nakakaalam bago magsabi ng mga masasamang bagay na ganyan. Ewan ko sa yo. Palagay ko disgruntled employee ka ng DSWD at mawawalan ka lang ng trabaho kapag na-relocate ang Golden Acres.
    Personalan na pala. At ang spelling pala ay “callous.” Hindi ako empleyado ng DSWD at nakilala ko siya nung tinilungan ako at mga anak ko ng DSWD. Mahiya ka sa mga sinasabi mo.

14. @joby aquino – napuntahan mo na ba ang goden acres na ito sa tanay? ako kasi napuntahan ko na at nakita ko na mas maayos (by 100%) na paglagayan yun ng mga matatanda natin kesa sa sikip na sikip na golden acres dyan sa likod ng sm. try mo puntahan at lumanghap ng sariwang hangin doon sa tanay para malaman mo na mas maigi pala ito na pagtirhan ng mga matatanda. at tsaka, kaya nga rehabilitation ang tawag sa mga bata sa boys town kasi binibigyan natin sila ng oportunidad na magbago. hindi naman lahat tayo dapat magsang-ayon sa mga adhikain natin, pero mas maganda na mas isipin natin ang kapakanan ng nakararami. tanungin mo na lang sa sarili mo kung ano ang naitulong mo at ano pa ang maitutulong mo kesa sa gamitin mo ang mga salitang nakakasakit. i would go more for truthful and sincere choice to help!

15. @ramrod – kaya nga po bodega ang tawag kasi dapat paglagyan ng goods. kung wala naman laman, magagalit din naman. ano ba talaga?

16. @ramrod – ah. maniniwala pala ako sa picture ni angelina jolie na nakahalambitin….pero nung pinakita sa sunod na picture, set pala ng pelikula. ganun ba yun?

17. I would love to help DSWD improve its system of distribution and management of volunteers. But I believe they’d prefer inefficiency and helplessness to persist as both are convenient covers for corruption. I’m not surprised that everything is still “all talk”. The lower ranking officers will always reflect what the highest ranking leaders do. Even in the evacuation centers we’ve been to (right after Ondoy struck), sacks of rice and noodles were left untouched even in the presence of hungry evacuees. We asked why they were not being distributed. The reply: “naubusan ng plastic bag” and “nasira ang kalan”, when we suggested to cook them. No matter what help you offer, they will always have excuses for not taking action.

    Thanks for exposing these and bringing the appalling situations into the people’s consciousness.

18. I agree. Most people think that the government is a singular entity devoid of all good. Now, if we say we still have hope for this country, then believe that THERE IS GOOD left in the government. Did someone even bother to ask what the DSWD has done (waaay before this sensational story came out)? The people I know who work at the DSWD (national and regional offices lang, kasi yung iba akala eh ang provincial/municipal/city social workers eh sa DSWD pa rin, when in fact devolved na ito sa LGUs – another information you may want to study further) work so hard, even prioritizing serving other people first rather than helping their own families during disasters. Ang nakikita lang kasi natin sa tv palagi ay ABS-CBN, GMA, Red Cross na tumutulong. Naiiintindihan ko na kailangan nilang ipakita ito para masabi nila sa mga donors nila na may ginagawa sila. Pero alam niyo ba kung magkano talaga ang pumupunta sa disaster operations at administrative costs nila? Kung comparative study lang ang pagbabasehan, di hamak naman na mas matataas sweldo ng mga taga NGOs na ito pati na sa mga UN agencies. May mga pangilan-ngilan din namang nagpapakita ng kabayanihan ng DSWD sa tv pero di lahat ipinapakita sa tv kasi mas mabenta ang pangungutya. Doon na ako sa maging mapagmatyag tayo sa katiwalian, pero ang kinukutya ninyo kasi eh ahensyang di dapat ikutaya kung hindi tulungan para maiparating sa bayan na may ginagawa tayong tulong. Kung di naman lumabas ito sa blog ni ella, di rin naman ninyo malalaman na pwede palang mag volunteer. Eh bakit yung ibang nag volunteer noon pa sa warehouse ng DSWD, nalaman naman. Ang ibang mga ahensya, mga fraternities, at schools ay nag volunteer agad ng serbisyo at oras nila noong kasagsagan ng bagyo at sila ang matatawag kong mga bayani.

19. @lya – i read about your comment on evacuation centers. i know that the management of evacuation centers is the responsibility of the LGUs already. try reading more on the devolution of social services. maybe the confusion is always coming from misguided information so please do your responsibility and get more information on this. akala ng lahat ng tao, sakop pa rin ng DSWD national at regional offices ang local social welfare offices kasi. please be well informed. it pays to know, you know. spread valid information only.

20. @Joby: O, ito pa. Nagtanong muna ako para sigurado. Tungkol diyan sa Heart Center, na-clear si Dr. Cabral ng Ombudsman. Pinagbintangan siya na walang namang basehan, naghahanap sila ng butas para mapaalis siya. Baka gusto mong kausapin si Presidente Ramos na ang doktor niya ang may pasimuno ng lahat ng gulo? Alam mo ba na ang doktor na yun ay nakulong dahil sa pagdispalko ng pera ng pasyente? Kausapin mo kaya ang mga tao sa komisyon na nag-imbistiga na ang isa sa kanila ay Supreme Court justice ngayon. Alam mo ba na hindi pinaalis si Dr. Cabral sa Heart Center pero kusa siyang nag-resign at umalis nung na-clear siya.
    Palagay ko hindi mo talagang nakilala si Dr. Cabral sa Heart Center at gumagawa ka lang ng panggulo.
    At oo nga, “callus” si Dr. Cabral. Marami na siyang kalyo sa paa dahil sa paglalakad and pagtrarabaho para sa DSWD at ang ating mga kababayan. Ikaw, ano na ang ginawa mo?

21. ano ba yun, nag-aaway na. sabi lang naman ni ellaganda, ba’t ambagal? walang sinabing, ay hinohoard yan, ay kinukurakot yan.

    ang problema nga lang siguro, kulang ng empleyado ang DSWD. Oo, may heart at may will ang mga taga-DSWD, pero kulang lang talaga sila. kelangan nila ng kasama.

    as far as i’ve read (and am thinking) (di ko na binasa lahat, nag-aaway na e, umabot ba naman ng golden acres?), ‘madali’ lang i-solve yan

    1. kung nagawa ng Palasyo manghingi sa Ateneo ng i-rerepack, sila naman ang mamigay sa NGOs at yung mga tulad ng GMA Kapuso Foundation at Sagip Kapamilya. bawal ba?

    2. Tutal hindi na binigay sa mga taga-public school yung sembreak (screw you, Lapus. ay joke lang po yun), paano kea kung yung mga nakaririwasang school (na under pa naman ng gov’t), yung mga barely binaha (Kisay, MaSci, PiSci) magpa ‘Day of Repacking’. Tignan mo, kung ‘compulsory yan kht isang araw, may isang araw ka nang may 1000+ ‘volunteers’. Kung enjoy ng Palasyo magbigay ng holiday, a ‘day of repacking’ shouldn’t hurt.

    3. Repack on summer para handa na sa rainy season.

    4. Let the rest of the Philippines do the repacking. Pano kea kung ilabas natin sa ‘Imperial Manila’ yung mga yan at ipa-repack na lang sa mga taga-Visayas at Mindanao. Ay wait, may transpo pla yun. Edi sa mga taga-Quezon, basta yung lugar na hindi bahado.

    5. Pag sinabing ’round the clock’, dapat walang tulugan! Wala dapat supladong guard

    6. isip pa ko, uhm, hmmmm. tanong lang. kung naliligo sa noodles ang mga kababayan nating nasalanta, pano nangyari yun? e de lata lang nasa loob ng sako. ayan may naisip na ko, nabasa actually. kumuha ng seswelduhang repacker. minimum wage ok na. at least doble doble na pagtulong un. nakatulong ka na sa nasalanta, nakatulong ka pa sa mga walang trabaho 🙂

    7. Ingredients: at least dalawang pulis/sundalo, at least dalawang DSWD Social worker, isang truck, 50-70 box ng sardinas, (bahala na sa pagbubudget ng mga ipamimigay, basta no discrimination kung imported o local ha?), pagkarami-raming table, stub, taling straw. Imbis na i-repack pa, abot abot system na lang. yung tipong parang oorder ka sa cafeteria. Sa simula ng line, ibibigay ay sako. sunod, kaldero, tapos yung other goods, tapos banig. tapos, tapos na. yung mga nasalanta na ang nag-repack!

    *about golden acres, hindi magiging logical ang expansion ng SM sa site nila, without buying QUESCI. remember, ang dakilang kapitbahay ng golden acres? sana lang hindi maging super kapitalista ang pamahalaan natin at instead kung mag-rerelocate sa Tanay ang Golden Acres, ibigay na lang sa Kisay yung lupa para pampalawak ng Education Complex dun na kinabibilangan ng San Francisco High School, QC Polytechnic Univ., Division of City Schools QC, DepEd NCR, at QC Science High School aka Kisay. (Malapit din ang Philippine College of Surgeons at QC Academy)

    Ewan ko n lng kung isasama ang Kisay sa dakilang expansion ng SM. cOME On, nagpapatayo kaya si Belmonte ng building sa’min. kay Henry Sy, well, hindi ka pa ba kuntento na ang SM North ay 1st (or 2nd na ata ulit) largest mall by gross leasable area? na may pagkalaki-laki ka nang MOA sa Pasay? Ang sabi pa naman ni Lord, mas magandang makuntento sa buhay (lalo na’t bilyonaryo ka naman)

22. Yung pinapakita pa yung script ng conversation sa opening page ng site na ito ng security guard sa warehouse, what is your point? your egos are bloated and you just seem to prove that you are definitely more educated, and there is no need to make that point. they may not have the masters in journalism or whatever, but they do work hard. if you would have wanted to “survey” the warehouse, please talk to the warehouse manager. And not in the wee hours of the morning. Please give them a break. Did you even bother to ask how they are doing there? (Bago pa po kasi sinulat ni ella ang kwento nya ay nagtatrabaho na yan sila at konting idlip lang ay maligaya na sila).

23. problem w/ you all is puro kayo dada ng dada, kung yung oras nyo ba na sinasayang sa harap ng computer e vinolunteer nyo na lang sa pag rerepack, nakatulong pa kayo, sobrang galing nyo kasi lahat, kayo kaya magpatakbo ng gobyerno, am sure, pati kayo, mangungurakot, hahahaha, wag na kasi
    magmalinis,angagaling nyo,kaya less talk, more action please. oo na, nagkulang ang DSWD, oo na, naka tenga yung mga corned beef and imported goods, oo na, mabagal ang distribution, would all these kagalingan nyo sa pag cocomment help solve all this? lahat kasi kayo tingin nyo sa sarili nyo perfect, hay naku, lumabas kayo ng bahay, pumunta kayo repacking centers ng me magawa pa kayong matino…… as said earlier, LESS TALK, MORE ACTION…. BTW, I don’t care what comments you give me after this, It wouldn’t help anybody if I respond back, I hope I got my msg clear.

24. @anna: bat hindi ka na lang gumawa ng sarili mong blog at discuss mo yang ‘devolution of social services’ na yan. peace! 😉

25. @JOBY AQUINO: CRYING WOLF!
    1. The truth of the matter is Cabral does not think that imported goods are fit for the consumption of the poor that she regards as animals and subhumans. She feels that imported items should not be wasted with these animals and to satisfy their needs by feeding or equipping them with these shiny utensils,Coleman lights and other quality goods would be an exercise in wastage.

    –I’m really amazed at how you claim to know Dr. Cabral’s mind very well. Have you ever talked to her personally about this? Did she share her thoughts with you?

    2. I know Cabral personally since she was director of the Heart Center and you should experience her calusness and it is frightening.

    –Oh you mean, “callousness.” So you are a self-proclaimed confidante of Dr. Cabral. I wonder how “personal” was personal? I could say I’ve known Judy Ann Santos personally since she was with Mara Clara because I saw her PERSONALLY in one of their shoots and I knew the Director and we were PERSONALLY introduced and I went home with a picture and a big smile on my face.:) get my drift?

    3. But she loves the good things in life but I would not delve into that because I have no hard evidence to back up my claim but many will attest how she has mastered the art of stealing without being caught – ask the personnel of the Heart Center where she was petitioned out.

    –This is SOOO yesterday. Haaay. Wala na bang iba?

    4. My position is this – if she can do that at the Philippine Heart Center what more at DSWD where she is the sovereign queen and where the budget are in the billions.

    –FYI, the budgets of DA, Dep Ed, DPWH, and the other government agencies are way bigger than the budget allocated to the DSWD. In fact, the DSWD has one of the smallest budget among the government agencies. Verify first before you make comments such as this.

    5. She’s just getting around us with her smiling face and girlish tone of voice because she has mastered the art of hypocrisy in front of the cameras. Her best friend they say is Miriam Santiago and as they say “birds of the same feather…get crazy together”. Need I say more?

    –Tom Grace was right. This one also lost his/her educated means of arguing a long time ago. Tsk Tsk.

    6. By the way I know many things about her because I am a relative of the late Director Finard Cabilao, our social welfare attache who was killed in Malaysia in the performance of his duty. People at DSWD know how the callus Cabral almost ignored to recognize the death and heroism of my cousin Finard. But maybe because of her advisers she attended his burial and after giving him a measly sum my cousin’s widow was appeased because of their want for money.

    –Same as #5.

    7. Cabral is a user and is an evil person but we are comforted by the fact that she is suffering fron breast cancer.

    –Check this one out. Joby playing God!

    8. One of these days, the Social Welfare Association of the Philippines or SWEAP will stage a lightning rally that will spill the bowels of Cabral if she will not change her ways – her high handedness and her verbal brutality at DSWD. We will call for her ouster and we will not stop till she is thrown out of DSWD – a great institution that she is treating as her personal property.

    –This has been said like, a hundred times already. But just like the weather who can’t seem to make up his mind, you’ll see the clouds gathering then the thunder rumbling, but never see a single drop of rain falling.

    9. I’m calling all Social Work graduates of the University of the Philippines – my alma mater – to stand firm behind this call to action.

    –Wag mo naming solohin ang UP-CSWCD. I graduated from there, too. But unlike you who seem to thrive on rhetorics, heresies, self-serving idealisms, and innate malice for others, I chose to do my best to serve the people humbly and quietly—just like what a TRUE-BLOODED SOCIAL WORKER SHOULD DO! Note: HIRAP KASI DAMI DADA, KULANG GAWA. BATO-BATO SA LANGIT….:)

    10. She has to go soon, not in May or June 2010 but NOW……

    –Gusto mo ikaw na mag-Head?

    11. lET ME ADD THE FACT THAT WAS PROVEN CORRECT BY THE CONGLOMERATE OF HENRY SY OF SM – CABRAL IS RUSHING UP THE SALE OF THE GOLDEN ACRES COMPOUND SITUATED AT THE BACK OF SM AT NORTH AVENUE, QUEZON CITY FOR BILLIONS OF PESOS AND ACCORDING TO SOURCES SHE WOULD GET COMMISSIONS IN THIS TRANSACTION AND GUESS WHAT: SHE WILL BE THROWING THE OLD PEOPLE TO THE MOUNTAINS OF TANAY TO RESIDE BESIDE THE YOUNG CRIMINALS OF BOYS TOWN – SHE WILL DO ANYTHING FOR GOLD!!!!!

    –Such a hopeless case. Nakiki-ride lang sa issue. Haaay. Again, proofs? Have you ever been to the GA inTanay? Why don’t you/SWEAP go to Tanay and visit the place to see how those elders would really be better taken care of in a cleaner and safer environment than the cramped space beside SM North that you so insist on where there is only one passage for the entrance and the exit? Why all the fuss? Kasi gusto nyo mas malapit sa mall? Sabagay, sayang naman pag may sale sa mall.

    Finally, I thought UP ka. It doesn’t show eh.

26. It is amazing how the comments to this blog had grown from a measly 56 last night to about 174 this very moment. However, it is definitely disheartening to read that majority are from people who decided to use this site for their personal attacks and “mud-slinging” to one another. The tone had completely became off topic and nonetheless became vicious and downright filthy. Example, a medical doctor was completely dragged into the mud and was called a “pig” because of his body size. Come on guys, grow up. The main concern here are the VICTIMS of typhoon Ondoy. A calamity of biblical proportion. When I heard of this situation, I just got home from school and getting ready to do my homework in the comfort of my bedroom with a view of the ocean and the nice street of Wilshire . But I was touched and was moved to pull my credit card and donate cash to Philippine Red Cross.
    I wanted to stand up and be counted. I wanted to share although I was thousand of miles away in United States.
    Then, I started making appeals via Twitter and have asked Hollywood celebrities to get into action. Now, that the donations had arrived in your homeland, all we could hear are bickering and delays in giving the much needed help to the victims.

    It is indeed outrageous to learn that after a month, the goods are still sitting in some warehouses. Whether it is true or not, the pictures said it all. There was no Philippine media reports on how the foreign aids was distributed. We, in USA will be as generous at all times but we also deserved to know as to whether the true people who are in dire need were in fact given the much needed help.

    That’s all. We need to see the displaced families and children receiving the food and fresh water and warm blankets. Not tomorrow but now. Right now. I hate to see crying children because they have not eaten for days.

    Open your hearts and may God touch all of you into positive action to help the disenfranchised. Please do not contribute to their early demise.

27. @JOBY ASSHOLE- if you dont have evidence to prove it it is because it is not true! she was petitioned out of heart center? i dont think so you dumbfool! it just so happend that she is identified with miriam santiago thats why when FVR won he took her out as the director of the heart center! people in the dswd know how callous dr. cabral is? thats why she is pushing for the transfer of the GA to Tanay for the elderly to have a better quality of life! I have a BIG question for you JOBY which i think you cant answer because your brain will merely shut down while trying to analyze the question! If you are an abandoned elderly person what quality of life would you choose: STAY IN A FACILITY THAT HAS BEEN BUILT DURING THE MARCOS REGIME WHICH IS SURROUNDED BY BUILDINGS AND HAS A NARROW PASSAGE WAY THAT A FIRETRUCK CAN’T EVEN PASS IF THERE IS AN EMERGENCY AND IS WAY OVER POLLUTED. OR TRANSFER TO TANAY WHERE THE BUILDING ARE NEW, FACILITIES UPGRADED AT PAR WITH THE MODERN STANDARDS OF THIS GENERATION AND CLEAN FRESH AIR? your main concern is not for the welfare of the RESIDENT’s of the GA but the welfare of the well abled bodied employees of the GA that doesnt want to get relocated because that would take them out of their comfort zone! AND ONE MORE THING! for the PEOPLE TO KNOW HOW STUPID JOBY and THE OTHER PEOPLE LIKE LIKE HIM OR IT? HAHAHA! THEIR FIRST OBJECTION TO THE TRANSFER OF GA TO TANAY WAS THE RELATIVES OF THE ELDERLY RESIDENTS OF THE GA WILL NO LONGER VISIT THEM BECAUSE TANAY IS FAR! DUH! STUPID! IN THE FIRST PLACE THEY WOULDNT BE IN THE GOLDEN ACRES IF THE HAVE RELATIVES RIGHT? STUPID!

    Your a relative of DIr. CAbilao? i see that’s why you are ranting here! Dir Cabilao was a good man! way better than you…By millions of miles. it just so happend that in Muslim countries they are not a liberal when it comes to third sex! not like in this country….liberal and free that’s why your still alive right? FAGGOT!

    Petition for Sec Cabral to step down or throw her out? what a dingbat! best performing cabinet secretary? number ! department in the Integrity Development Action Plan! Number 1 least corrupt agency under HER watch!

    Your a graduate of UP? your ALMA MATTER? is it yours?since when? or just because that’s the only school you can remember because your dumb brain wont process no more?

    YOUR A FUCKING ASSWIPE JOBY! YOU DONT KNOW SHIT AND YOU WILL NEVER KNOW SHIT!!!!!!!

28. @RAMROD- Yes pictures do speak a thousand words! that’s why its unfair to pass judgement just because of pictures right?

    what would you choose to have a situation where there is an empty warehouse and an overflooding of relief goos to areas that are already over served by both NGO’s and Government? Or a Full WAREHOUSE that anytime time a request is made by Local Government units for relief goods there is an available stock?

29. @STOCK- “KAMBYO” by the GOVT?how sure can you be? DON’T think your wise enough to analyze all the conspiracies we have know!!!! YOU DONT KNOW SHIT! ASSHOLE!!!!!!

30. MANUEL L QUEZON III= ABNORMAL LOOKING MOTHER FUCKER! LIKE YOUR BOSSES THERE IN ABS-CBN! and like your PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE!

31. @maverick – ay sus. that is your responsibility to know and study on.

32. @LovelySoul – Ma’am, your donation went to Red Cross, so you should ask them where it went.

33. Funny how some of the comments bash mlq when his blog is the most un-biased entry on the topic. If everyone took the time to read the entire post (which is kinda long), you’ll notice that he presented both sides fairly–Ella’s and Cabral’s. Based on what I’ve been reading (and hearing, and watching) since yesterday, I would like to raise these points:

    1. Ella raised valid points in her blog. Ella is not a journalist–she never claimed to be. She was merely relating her experience as a DSWD volunteer. Masama bang magkwento? Magtanong? Magtaka? It’s disturbing to note that there are a lot of people trying to discredit her. Questioning the government should NEVER be discouraged.

    2. Personally, I think burden of proof lies in DSWD being that it is a government office and is accountable to the people.

    3. Most of the people who read Ella’s blog overreacted. Living in a country where you expect the government not to do any good is no excuse to immediately bash the agency without waiting to find out its side of the story.

    My family and I are victims of Ondoy–we almost lost our home and all our belongings. Maybe I’m speaking for the rest of us when I say that bickering about the issue isn’t helping. The good thing is that we are again reminded that there are still people out there who need our help.

    @Tom Grace: Technically, Ella can’t be sued for slander because slander refers to a malicious, false and defamatory SPOKEN statement or report. She may be sued for LIBEL if DSWD wishes but they have to prove in court that there was malicious intent on her part. From a personal standpoint, I didn’t find anything libelous in Ella’s post but this is what makes this law tricky; reading malicious intent can be somewhat subjective.

34. Funny how some of the comments bash mlq when his blog is the most un-biased entry on the topic. If everyone took the time to read the entire post (which is kinda long), you’ll notice that he presented both sides fairly–Ella’s and Cabral’s. Based on what I’ve been reading (and hearing, and watching) since yesterday, I would like to raise these points:

    1. Ella raised valid points in her blog. Ella is not a journalist–she never claimed to be. She was merely relating her experience as a DSWD volunteer. Masama bang magkwento? Magtanong? Magtaka? It’s disturbing to note that there are a lot of people trying to discredit her. Questioning the government should NEVER be discouraged.

    2. Personally, I think burden of proof lies in DSWD being that it is a government office and is accountable to the people.

    3. Most of the people who read Ella’s blog overreacted. Living in a country where you expect the government not to do any good is no excuse to immediately bash the agency without waiting to find out its side of the story.

    My family and I are victims of Ondoy–we almost lost our home and all our belongings. Maybe I’m speaking for the rest of us when I say that bickering about the issue isn’t helping. The good thing is that we are again reminded that there are still people out there who need our help.

    @Tom Grace: Technically, Ella can’t be sued for slander because slander refers to a malicious, false and defamatory SPOKEN statement or report. She may be sued for LIBEL if DSWD wishes but they have to prove in court that there was malicious intent on her part. From a personal standpoint, I didn’t find anything libelous in Ella’s post but this is what makes this law tricky; reading malicious intent can be somewhat subjective.

35. your name suits you psychogoddess! YOUR A FUCKING PSYCHO!!!!!!

36. @psycho- have you ever thought also that majority of the employees of the dswd are also victims of the calamity? but instead of tending to their personal needs they still go to work because they are so dedicated to the job the promised to do with all their heart?

37. @psychogoddess

    @LovelySoul

    Most people think that the government is a singular entity devoid of all good. Now, if we say we still have hope for this country, then believe that THERE IS GOOD left in the government. Did someone even bother to ask what the DSWD has done (waaay before this sensational story came out)? The people I know who work at the DSWD (national and regional offices lang, kasi yung iba akala eh ang provincial/municipal/city social workers eh sa DSWD pa rin, when in fact devolved na ito sa LGUs – another information you may want to study further) work so hard, even prioritizing serving other people first rather than helping their own families during disasters. Ang nakikita lang kasi natin sa tv palagi ay ABS-CBN, GMA, Red Cross na tumutulong. Naiiintindihan ko na kailangan nilang ipakita ito para masabi nila sa mga donors nila na may ginagawa sila. Pero alam niyo ba kung magkano talaga ang pumupunta sa disaster operations at administrative costs nila? Kung comparative study lang ang pagbabasehan, di hamak naman na mas matataas sweldo ng mga taga NGOs na ito pati na sa mga UN agencies. May mga pangilan-ngilan din namang nagpapakita ng kabayanihan ng DSWD sa tv pero di lahat ipinapakita sa tv kasi mas mabenta ang pangungutya. Doon na ako sa maging mapagmatyag tayo sa katiwalian, pero ang kinukutya ninyo kasi eh ahensyang di dapat ikutaya kung hindi tulungan para maiparating sa bayan na may ginagawa tayong tulong. Kung di naman lumabas ito sa blog ni ella, di rin naman ninyo malalaman na pwede palang mag volunteer. Eh bakit yung ibang nag volunteer noon pa sa warehouse ng DSWD, nalaman naman. Ang ibang mga ahensya, mga fraternities, at schools ay nag volunteer agad ng serbisyo at oras nila noong kasagsagan ng bagyo at sila ang matatawag kong mga bayani.

38. Sorry my countrymen, makapal na, makapal na ang mukha nila.
    Yung hiya, wala na. Garapal na. Mga manhid ang pakirandam.
    Tayo dito nataranta na sa mga masamang nangyayari, pero sila
    bali wala.
    Kon hindi sila gaanong concerned bakit kaya tayo nagkaproblema?
    What are we going to do?

39. @ella panget:
    hindi ko alam kung ano ang kinakagalit mo…if you’ve read my post, I clearly stated that people should have waited for DSWD’s side of the story before reacting.
    …and using expletives and insults are such great ways of driving your points across. 😛

    @ella panget, @anna:
    If you read and understood my post, wala akong masamang sinabi tungkol kay Cabral at sa DSWD. Di ko talaga alam kung bakit ang init ninyong dalawa.

    Ewan ko talaga kung bakit feeling ninyo may pangngutyang kasama yung post ko. This is exactly the kind of bickering I was talking about.

40. TO : anna on Sun, 25th Oct 2009 1:55 pm

    Anna, if you just read between the lines and thoroughly with an open ended mind, correct me if I’m wrong (I stand corrected), it is not DSWD (deeeee is dabolyo deeeee) that is on the hot seat but the appointed people that are supposed to run and manage the department efficiently and without partisan mind what so ever when it comes to public service.

    At any rate, what can we expect if the one who appointed Sec Cabral has no leaning towards public service but thinks only how to eat caviar and travels on a Learjet.

    Thanks but no thanks to the efforts of Sec Cabral in explaining how her department should run and work along side with other cohorts.

41. My God! After my appeal for everyone to just go there and help if you are really concerned, there’s still too much of talk and no action. Just go and get your hands dirty and your shirt sweaty. The goods really need as many people to move them. Really help if you’re concerned. If you’re from Metro Manila, there is really no excuse for you to just type around instead of packing those goods so they move.

    I sent that appeal this morning, slept only to wake up and see there’s still too much talk.

    Let’s go! You know where it is right? DSWD warehouse, Chapel Road, Pasay City (behind ATO Office, towards NAIA II). If DSWD says they have too many volunteers, say you wanna pack for UNICEF.

    You can talk the talk, but can you walk the walk?

42. Sometimes, we people are like ants in the face of giants. We need to create an itch for them to realize what they need to do. Although we know that DSWD is an entity that is in charge for the wellness of our people, they too have people devoted to their work, while some of them just sit down and do some work, and yet they oversee what’s been happening in their department- I have some news that some members of the agency is doing lame stuffs what I mean (unacceptable) as they were supposed to be the role model of some government agencies- but we cannot say that all of them are corrupt, we just say, they must perform their work, for the benefit of the people not for the benefit of the few, we are thinking that in this very same freedom of writing we can at least create an itch for them to realize that crucial task are needed to be transparent, especially when they are given the much opportunity to help. People are doing their part. We just hope for the best, ANG BLOG NI ELLA got fame, and creates hatred and followers but then, the core thing is, she was the first one who exposed this thing, it really blew up, as we are in the world of NEtshepre, but still Ella is right, Time is of the Essence, actions are needed to be done, but her allegations came too close enough to destroy the agency’s long time credibility. Now is the time to wake up the government that people are watching and doing their part. We all work for the well being of each other to take care of our fellow countrymen, just do not spread hatred, you can spread what public needs to know, but be at least responsible for WTF you are writing. I posted a comment in her blog ellaganda.com but my comment was erased. Hope this will be posted. I think this blog has more reason to survive. Keep up the good job,MLQIII More power!

43. @ella panget, no matter how valid your argument is ay walang makikinig sayo if you continue to insult people. peace.

44. @BernardBasher: di ka ba nagbabasa? BERNARD SINGCUENCO BALATBAT, MD wasnt expecting payment when he volunteered. It was just unfortunate for DSWD when he learned that he was supposed to receive an allowance that he did not receive. Kung hindi nya nalaman yun sana hindi sha na turn-off sa DSWD.

    @Tom Grace: people in government agencies like DSWD or whatever agency arent there because they want to.. but because they can. Karamihan sa mga govt employees nasa govt kasi may mga kamaganak cla na nag t trabaho doon. Kung wala kang backer… mahirap pumasok sa gobyerno.

    Wala akong tiwala sa government employees kasi maraming beses ko ng napatunayan na halos lahat sila corrupt and greedy. Marami na akong first hand experience on dealing with them.

    My friends and I went to a relief center with food and clothes. There were so many people there and less than 10 of us. So we considered going to DSWD sa munisipyo para sila nalang mag bigay.. thinking theyd be more organized. Pero nakausap nung friend ko yung mga evacuess doon and they said it would be better if we just give it straight to the people kasi daw yung mga donations na nasa DSWD hindi naman daw nakakadating sa kanila. May mga nareceive pa cla na expired delata. WTF diba?
    That evacuation center was living off from donations and cooked food served by volunteers and not by government people. So anong ginagawa nila sa mga donations na natatanggap nila if hindi natatanggap ng mga evacuees?

    Bago kayo kumampi sa gobyerno, umalis muna kayo sa harap ng mga computers nyo and magpunta talaga kayo sa relief centers pra malaman nyo ang real score. Halos lahat ng relief efforts are done by private groups & individuals halos non-existent ang govt. So hindi nyo masisi ang mga tao when they get furious by news/blogs like this.

    Ako din, I wanna know what will happen to those imported items. BS yung excuse nila na inventory and giving monetary values.. plain BS… if thats the protocol dapat mabilis nilang nagagawa yun… private people were able to organize relief ops in a day or 2 tapos government cant do it in 1 month? BS BS BS! I hope someone can cover this to make sure these items all go to the victims. Nakakahiya.

45. You bastards! You been blogging negatives and non-sense. You didnt even spend time to investigate and invest your egoistic minds into looking at the benefits. Pareha tayong mga Pinoy. Mga SIRA ANG ULO NYO. Ang kawawa ay ang mga disaster victims, wala ng tutulong sa atin dito sa Pinas. Kayo bang kunyari concerned citizens and ganda bloggers ay gustong tumakbong Pnagulo ng Pilipinas?

    Spare the innocents. Dapat kayo ang nabahaan. Wala naman kayong nagawa para ikasaya namin.

    Hoy Ella Panget, you live with your name. Mag-aral ka muna ng Logistics Management bago ka mag comment ha? Kung ikaw ay taga PAGC talaga you should know the real procedures in managing stockpiles, right? Do not pretend to know. You are an evil pretending to be an angel by using “volunteerism” as a venue for your evil scheme. You know, kahit gaano kaganda ang smile mo sa blog pic mo, there is no denying you are Pangit. Sana yung earnings mo in the blog and whoever is/are behind you will suffer the consequences one day. Ikaw na sana ang mabaha!

    On the sale of Golden Acres, how knowledgeable are you of the facts? Why will DSWD sell the property when it does not even owns it? Ano ang tingin nyo, matinik ang analysis nyo? Mga pare at mare, bago kayo masunog sa mga accusations nyo, tingnan nyo muna ng mabuti ang mga facts nyo ha? Tira kayo ng tira without knowing the facts.

    Is Director Finard the only DSWD killed in action? Mahiya kayo, why will his family be the only one to benefit the help? If you claim to be a concerned relative, you should also be fair. Kung may Dir. Cabilao ka, ako ay mayroong Dir. Maglunob, who really died in the line of duty and deserved the help more. Huwag ka ng magtago pa, kung sino kaman kilala ko ang true color mo, you are not a concerned relative but a family outsider who pretends to be an insider. Sinungaling ka.

    Sana tamaan kayo ng kidlat. Hindi na ninyo naisip ang tunay na nagsumikap at naghirap para sa mga biktima ng kalamida. Makonsensya kayo, DO NOT USE YOUR IT LITERACY TO GAIN MONEY.
    STOP IT GUYS SIRA TAYONG LAHAT HERE AND ABROAD SA MGA GINAGAWA NYO.

46. Pinoys-in-Pinas approach events expecting their fellow Pinoys to be cheats and scums. Walang tiwala sa kapuwa Pinoy. [Which makes sense. Pinoys are not trustworthy.]

    Now 10% or 15% are scum. Which means if you help, then 85% of your effort goes to help a fellow Pinoy in need.

    Pick your poison — you don’t help, then you don’t help.

    You help, then 85% goes to good use and 15% goes to a scumbag. Pick your poison.

47. hehehhe grabe talaga!!!! malamang yan bukas makalawa binibenta na yan sa duty free philippines!!!

48. @mytcz – maybe this information might clarify the confusion with local social welfare services and the national social services. —- I agree. Most people think that the government is a singular entity devoid of all good. Now, if we say we still have hope for this country, then believe that THERE IS GOOD left in the government. Did someone even bother to ask what the DSWD has done (waaay before this sensational story came out)? The people I know who work at the DSWD (national and regional offices lang, kasi yung iba akala eh ang provincial/municipal/city social workers eh sa DSWD pa rin, when in fact devolved na ito sa LGUs – another information you may want to study further) work so hard, even prioritizing serving other people first rather than helping their own families during disasters. Ang nakikita lang kasi natin sa tv palagi ay ABS-CBN, GMA, Red Cross na tumutulong. Naiiintindihan ko na kailangan nilang ipakita ito para masabi nila sa mga donors nila na may ginagawa sila. Pero alam niyo ba kung magkano talaga ang pumupunta sa disaster operations at administrative costs nila? Kung comparative study lang ang pagbabasehan, di hamak naman na mas matataas sweldo ng mga taga NGOs na ito pati na sa mga UN agencies. May mga pangilan-ngilan din namang nagpapakita ng kabayanihan ng DSWD sa tv pero di lahat ipinapakita sa tv kasi mas mabenta ang pangungutya. Doon na ako sa maging mapagmatyag tayo sa katiwalian, pero ang kinukutya ninyo kasi eh ahensyang di dapat ikutaya kung hindi tulungan para maiparating sa bayan na may ginagawa tayong tulong. Kung di naman lumabas ito sa blog ni ella, di rin naman ninyo malalaman na pwede palang mag volunteer. Eh bakit yung ibang nag volunteer noon pa sa warehouse ng DSWD, nalaman naman. Ang ibang mga ahensya, mga fraternities, at schools ay nag volunteer agad ng serbisyo at oras nila noong kasagsagan ng bagyo at sila ang matatawag kong mga bayani.

49. What Ella exposed may have done something “good”. But the way she gave the title and deliver her blog it’s not good for those people working in DSWD providing assistance not only for this calamity but also to the abused and the poor. The fact that most of the DSWD volunteers are also social workers, they don’t deserve this kind of negative commentary. I know most of you care for the victims of this calamity and yes they too because they are Filipinoes like you and me. The response may have been slow but they are not super heroes. Even you can pack 1000 bags a day, if there is nothing to transport this goods to the site it’s useless. In the end of the day as you can see in the news the government is trying their best to acomodate all the victims needs and even those that are not really victims.

50. @mytcz – at pano mo naman nalaman na karamihan sa mga nasa gobyerno ay may kamag-anak din sa gobyerno? nagsurvey ka ba o nanghula ka lang? Hulaan ko din, gusto mo sanang pumasok sa gobyerno pero di ka natanggap at sinasabi mong dahilan para di ka mapahiya ay wala kang backer? hmmm.

    Noong nagpunta kayo sa relief center, umatras agad kayo sa pamimigay ng mga dala nyong relief goods kasi maraming tao sa evacuation center? duhhh? what the heck? did you expect na konti lang ang madadatnan nyo dun? at dahil umatras kayo, pinuntahan nyo taga DSWD para saluhin ang trabahong ayaw ninyong gawin? Akala ko wala kang tiwala sa gobyerno? Besides, hindi dahil nakapunta ka sa isang “relief center” ay magfeeling ka na ha. naghamon ka pa talaga sa iba na pumunta sa mga evacuation centers, hello, sa yo na mismo nanggaling na humingi kayo ng tulong sana sa mga taga DSWD.

    AT isa pa, sana alam mo yung devolution ano, ung DSWD sa munisipyo hindi yun under ng national DSWD. Gets?

    @nhoi – magFilipino ka na lang. ang sakit sa ulo ng pinagsasasabi mo. ANong open-ended mind? kumusta naman! Joke ba yun?

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