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Carlito, 10
years old, and Mary Joy, 1 year
old, are about to go to school. They are two of the other three children
of Romel and Marianita. [Music]
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Painter. They are preparing their
uniforms and school supplies, but not
breakfast because like the other
mornings, they don't have any. Not
today because they don't have any money and they don't have any food.
They don't have enough money because their house is only a few meters away from the
landfill. [Music] Every day,
Carlito and Mary Joy ride the garbage trucks until they
reach the
exit. This is a big saving because
their Php food allowance won't be reduced.
Why do you still go when
my parents told you to study hard?
Why do you insist like that?
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Getting off the garbage truck,
Carlito and Mary Joy still have to take a jeepney to
go back. The PH is paying for
their fare, so the remaining food allowance at the
age of 10 Carlito should be in grade 4
but because their parents couldn't afford to
send them to school together,
he didn't study for two years
1 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 10 okay
and what's
wrong with him?
Why are you so weak?
weak?
My stomach isn't empty yet. Sometimes it
hurts. School is hard.
time for a
little soup and a hot dog.
Carlito's lunch box sometimes
comes in sluggishly. It
seems like he has no appetite for school. He doesn't have any appetite for
school, like Min says. Ma'am.
I don't have any money. We don't have any [Music]
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As for reading and
writing, when they have something to book, they always
stay at home and write. This
This
picture is all their stuff. All of their stuff came from the
garbage dump.
His dad gave it to them before.
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because his wife Romel's livelihood is selling garbage at the landfill.
Our budget is
not enough. My wife only earned it last night.
This
morning, it's just right. No.
lunch to supplement their income
even Carlito's other brother
Janan is also helping with the
trade you are a trader you don't have
breakfast just tinis just water just water just water
this last year Janan was forced to
stop studying because of
poverty so he could eat this afternoon
How many kilos I
hope two two [Music]
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kilos my brother's birthday Who
has a birthday Mary Jung is going to school so that's
Mary Jane's birthday so
you're saving it
Yes Janan's income that
his family expected only went to
pay off the debt minus Dong's
Dong's not
30 How much do you owe 120 po 120 so
because you gave 30 0 90
That's hard life
Marianita tries to meet the
needs of her children It was hard I
told her that even if it was given to her children
as long as they could attack their
noon honestly the
siblings Carlito
cried, his stomach still hurt
from hunger. They didn't have any food for
lunch. The noodles were rice.
noodles with soup. All
they had for lunch was
last night. The
family could eat rice. What are they doing? They do
n't have the
right kind of food. No, that's why they're saying that.
Sometimes, they don't eat properly.
He's tired in the morning. At noon, he
only eats a little. It's enough for them. But when they
get home, they
don't get enough sleep.
Carlito left home when he got home from
school. What are you doing? You're
already eating. Then you go shopping. When
I go to school, it's just my lunch.
What are you looking for? Bak is like this.
Plastics are wrong. Okay. This is
Bak too. Carlito often helps his
father, Romel, in choosing the [Music]
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goods that can be sold. What do
you think? Dad, how much will you have
today? 200. 200 is enough today.
Tonight, I have something else to sell. I
have debts. Is he your
father? I have a B there. He earned a lot.
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Romel Janjan and Carlito's total income
for that day.
PH asked them to buy Rice and four
dinner. Despite their strategy
and efforts, the income is still not enough
tomorrow. Another challenge will be
faced by the family. [Music]
Painter. Tomorrow is another
adventure for the family. [Music]
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Like other days, there is no breakfast
for the siblings Carlito and
Mary Joy who are going to [Music]
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school. This
scene is repeated with their siblings going to
school. The children's stomachs are not even empty.
today. He cried a lot and didn't want to
go in. He said he had a wound on his foot
garbage. He hoped that Marianita
and Romel's son would be there, but two of them died
when they were babies. One died
of a convulsion. The other died. They weren't
even taken to the hospital because they were afraid
that they were lacking in nutrients.
There was also
the fear that what
happened to their child had gone. So
I asked for food and support, even though I said
I was just looking for a way to help
because her
other children often got sick.
Marianita wanted them to see a
doctor, so we accompanied them to the
Rizal. Apart from confirming that
the siblings were experiencing undernutrition,
the doctor found other problems based on the
weighing of the eight children. Three were
severely stunted and two were
underweight and one was normal weight.
Also based on Mary Joy and Jovel, they were
severely stunted, but I think
there were other problems because Mary Joy had
not yet menstruated. She still didn't have
the secondary sexual characteristics
of a girl.
After some tests, it turned out that
Carlito and her other brother,
Emmanuel, had Tuberculosis. Apart from being
being
undernourished, Jobel and his three-
month-old brother, Nathaniel, were
also found to have fluid
in their lungs. Jobel needs to be
treated as soon as possible. I
can do anything. I will treat
him so that he doesn't go away from me.
I will also give him the food he needs so that
my children don't get sick.
The reporter's notebook is already contacting the local
government of Rodriguez Rizal to
help the siblings. But
they still have many [Music]
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needs. To buy
healthy food and to eat
three times a day,
a family with five members needs
almost Php500 per month or almost Php500 per
per
day. This is far from the income of the
Pintor family, which only reaches Php 1,000.
So it's not surprising that
they can't eat healthy food.
Four out of every five families in the Philippines
say they are unable to
provide healthy food to
their children due to lack of
money. We have a child who is lethargic.
We have a child with a poor growth
pattern. He is stunted or thin. His
His
school is affected now. The lack of adequate and
healthy food results in malnutrition.
malnutrition.
Carlito is
stunted or wasted.
He doesn't have malnutrition, but wasting is a
type of malnutrition. also malnutrition, that's
low weight for age, that's what
we call it. Thin is the best choice in the
world with the highest cases
of malnutrition, 3.6 million of our
children are called stunted or
not suitable for age to strengthen the delivery
of social services, the government will
intensify its protection program, so it
can use resources and expertise to make a
dent in the country's poverty levels,
but now I have
decided to direct the DSWD to provide
the R
subsidies to the poorest of the families
at least to eat every month, I
think the
Department of Health should prioritize it and then promote
pure breastfeeding up to 2 years of age.
Let's let mothers eat and
be healthy so they can produce milk. The
government still needs to think about how a family can have enough
income to buy
nutritious food to feed
their family and not become
malnourished. I'm also called, so that's why I
called you. You said
what you intend to do at home to view for the
but Until now, there is none [Applause]
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but despite this, Carlito and
Mary Joy are determined to study because this is the only
hope they see
to get out of poverty.
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