Last Saturday, we went to do
our Service Learning activity for Isang Litrong Liwanag. I woke up really late that morning, and I
thought I was going to be left behind. I
rushed to school and luckily people were just arriving. When we got to the community, I could immediately see the
difference with the community near DLSU.
You could see and smell the difference. We split off into groups and
went to install the bottles.
I was the first one in our group to do some
manual labor for the people in the community.
It was scary because we were on a rusty roof in the squatter area and
the roof was shaky. I felt that at any
time I lost my balance, I would probably fall to my death. I was sweating like crazy while trying to
keep a straight face in front of our group.
After what felt like an eternity, I was able to successfully install a
PET bottle with the special formula onto the roof. My knees were shaking uncontrollably after
that experience, but after I saw how illuminated the room was, I felt happy and
satisfied with my work.
The discussion for the
following week (Thursday) in class was about corruption. I was able to connect the dots on how
corruption is slowly making everyone poorer and the need for more ventures or
activities like the Isang Litrong Liwanag.
Corruption in the government, corruption of companies, and the
corruption of people is all due to the greed that they have. Why are people still corrupt, knowing that
some “good” companies (Green Companies, Multinationals, etc.) are making
money? This is because people do not see
the world as Black and White; we all see a gray area where everything and
anything can be justified. We may view
bribery as an evil act, but some view it as a necessary evil to continue
running a company. This is why people
have to change, and the change should start with us.
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