“Batang Kalabaw Reaction Paper”

“Batang Kalabaw Reaction Paper”

Philippine is one of the poorest country in Asia. It has lots of people who were suffering to poverty and hunger. Sine Totoo, a documentary movie, shows the one problem in Philippines and they entitled it “Batang Kalabaw”. I hope this served as an eye opener for the government to see what is occurring in impoverished in the world we live.

When I watched this documentary movie, my heart fills with sympathy and I was so pitiful to the children. The children lived in very rural areas in country in a mountainous place, which they did tough works to be able to give their family needs. In that place, instead the parents should work for them the children are the one who work for their family. Then I think their parent wasn’t responsible for not doing their roles in their family.

Everyday the children always climb the mountain and carry heavy loads. They walk four hours to reach the mountain without any slippers to wear and a few foods that can not satisfies their hungry tummy. When they reach the mountain, the children start to carry a “2by2” or “2by4” thick-wide pieces of wood in their shoulders and they carry it down the mountain. When I’m watching that part, I cannot control my self to be very pitiful for them. Even though I’m 13 years old, I can not take those things which they were doing. Their salary for carrying one wood is only P 1.50 and their bosses will deduct their salary for just a simple stain in the woods. It was so very unfair. They earn only P 12.00 for their whole day labor. And if I were the boss of them , I’m going to pay them P 50.00 so they can buy their foods.

These children should not be in mountain carrying heavy loads, they should be in school and their parents should be the one who work and give their basic needs. I can say that their parents are irresponsible because they let their children to do those tough things.

I realized that I am one of the lucky children in this country because I’m not doing such as hard things like what other children did. I can have the things that I want, I can study in a private school and I can eat three meals everyday. We should be thankful for what God has given to us even if it is small things.

So we need to be compassionate to others and share what we have so they can feel the presence of the Lord.