Palawan considered the last frontier of the Philippines because of its tamed and untapped ecosystem. Environment exploitation is rare to happen since they have many concerned agencies that protect the community, but when labor exploitation is at focus the story differ.
Just a disclaimer, the author doesn’t tell the child minor exploitation only occurs in Palawan. Or It doesn’t tend to ruin the reputation of any person or place once said in the article; it only depicts what makes us individual and what makes us to have same equal footing since we are under the same sun and moon; we breath the same air.
Child minor labor exploitation case that I tried to deny but really unveils itself. The event happened one morning while I’m in Puerto Princesa Palawan. An observation that stood above the rest, I noticed that there are three minor laborers working at Sulpicio Lines that mixed in the crowd of adult worker. After a sudden when I got the privileged to ask them some questions, at first they were hesitant for their answers but as the conversation move along I gained their trust. I’d learned that these three minor laborers were working as a stripper, responsible for moving out all the items from inside the container van. And I’d discovered that they receiving 300 pesos per container van they completed to strip off. Considering five members will share that amount. What I’m trying to say was that these people were earning roughly sixty/ seventy pesos on average and it was way off with respect to the standard living. According to the Philippine Government that we needed 180 pesos in order for us to live a normal life.
It seems that life is unfair to these people. Poverty is the common reason for unlikely leaving their childhood dreams and lives in order to compromise the self-centered and hash environment than they experiencing right now; unfortunately it is the reality
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