HUNGER mitigation, as what the recent Social Weather Station survey would prove, is not just solved by the government’s brisk intervention.
In fact, even with the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) doing its best to respond to the needs of poor families, “there simply to much to be done, and leaving the government alone to do it, would make it seem helpless.”
The recent SWS survey that some 3.7 million families in the country experience hunger in the past three months.
“A lot of factors need to be considered here,” presses one population and health education (PHE) advocate in Bohol who asks not to be named.
She said “while the government deals on providing the immediate assistance towards hunger mitigation, local governments should now see the correlation between uncontrolled population, resource use and channeling the country’s resources to where they could dent on poverty and not on politician’s pockets.”
“I believe the government today is slowly addressing the problem in its own way but we need to take our part, not just criticize because whether we admit it or not, we all going down on this same boat,” she said. (PIA)
