Think about it
Street children
By Jun Velasco
“A rational nature admits of nothing which is not serviceable to the rest of mankind,” Marcus Aurelius
EACH time Rizal’s declaration of “the youth as hope of the fatherland” comes to mind, we are bothered by the increasing number of street children everywhere.
This is why we had moist eyes at the sight of three good Samaritans giving a lunch treat to a group of Dagupan street kids at McDonalds recently.
The sight tugged at our heart strings again as we watched “The Voice: Kids” grand finale which was won by a street kid, nine-year-old Lyca Gairanod (coached by Sarah Geronimo) with her winning piece, “Basang Basa sa Ulan.”
This street kids phenomenon is an old challenge not only to our government—but more so — to society itself.
Over a cup of brewed coffee, our scholarly friend Prof. Danny Maramba of UPang-PHINMA dismissed the PDI’s headline “Luy testifies Revilla got P224-M ‘rebates’ with a cold shrug as if to underscore “an awful fact of life: the unmitigated reign of greed” as Rizal has so institutionalized in his El Filibusterismo novel.
Is man by nature greedy, selfish, self-centered? If this be so, won’t it be apt to endorse Albert Camus’ “Life is absurd” philosophy?
There’s one thing Danny and this writer instantly agreed on though, and that is, heaven—or what Utopia and Bible scholars envisage—is strictly personal.
In the book, “An Examined Life,” the author, Dennis Helming, applauds the promise of a virtuous life over a life of pleasure as far as man’s quest for happiness is concerned. This view is validated by what we see every day about tragedy-bound people who are ruled by appetite.
Well, as we often say, “the golden mean” is a realizable good… which we say should be much better than all the fantastic things critics and detractors bludgeon P-noy and Abad with every day.
Back to the street kids.
This street children business has its inspiring version in Metro Manila.
We are referring to what Mother Goose Playskool founder-First Directress Gloria Samson-Beltran and hubby Danny Beltran are doing to save street children thereabouts.
Having devoted much of their time in “catching” these wayward waifs, feeding and sheltering them, the couple have partnered with French Philanthropists to realize their vision—and mission.
It’s in this kind of activity that the world finds solace and encouragement to move on.
Yes, definitely not about stories of greed involving politicians of the Filipino variety.
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Thanks to the fishers group of Alfredo Dawana and Ed Maramba for inviting us to the Department of Trade and Industry entrepreneurship seminar at Star Plaza in collaboration with Deborah Beltran Castillo’s consultancy services last Thursday.
Thru that event, we found to our delight Deborah’s superb skills in public speaking and management as well as entrepreneurship. She is definitely government’s loss but private business’ gain. She says she is looking forward to more such seminars in the region.
Good luck.
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As we go to press—inspired by the Sunday Punch’s festive mood having reached 58 years old this week, we got wind of the increasing success of fellow journalist Edgar L. Delibo of Digos, Davao in the field of alternative medicine.
We’re publishing a flash report sent by the Dagupan OIC Ma Suzette Carangdang as follows:
“A powerful health and wellness system based purely on vegetables and fruits diet – better known as Dok Alternatibo — has been winning legions of patients and adherents worldwide, including Pangasinan, according to its Dagupan City staff led by Ma Suzette Carangdang, officer in charge, and Roger Boado Jr., consultant.
Its founder is former ABS-CBN talent Edgar L. Delibo, 39, of Digos, Davao.
Finding himself short of cash when he took his beloved wife Magdalena to so-called well-heeled and famous doctors, the never-say-die broadcast journalist from Davao launched a rigorous research to formulate a treatment system that was anti synthetic to save his beloved wife from multiple ailments more than a decade back. .
The treatment of Magdalena Delibo from toxic goiter, myoma, rheumatic heart, constipation and insomnia via Dok Alternatibo’ system saved him from shelling out half a million pesos and marked his entry into successful a healing and wellness career that is now being hailed nationwide.
While searching for his wife’s treatment, Ed discovered that most if not all the medicines prescribed for the public are funded by giant pharmaceuticals. This medical care business is really big business.
This finding led him to organize a health system that is not based on business but healing efficacy. The system relies solely on vegetables and fruits diet and completely nothing on meat and fish and the ordinary white rice.
Dok Alternatibo uses wild honey and molasses, Chia seeds, Whole Wheat, Oats, sunflower seeds, spirulina, malunggay, lagundi, muscovado supar, Carcuma Lunga, Gotu Kola and countless others.
Because of his overwhelming love for his beloved, Ed, like the builder of Taj Majal in India, stumbled upon a powerful health formula, a blessing for mankind.
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