Service Delivery

How wrapped up in my world can I be?

It is only today that I have heard about a controversy surrounding the delayed delivery of service by the Department of Social Welfare and Development. A blogger posted about relief goods in DSWD’s warehouses that were not being distributed to victims of the typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng. It’s been one month since Ondoy hit, and we still have people in relief centers. There’s another storm raging through some parts of  Luzon. Isn’t there an immediate need for those goods?

The blogosphere is abuzz with this heinous crime, and the local media has picked it up as well.

I will not repost the author’s original blog post, but instead I will give you links to the two recent articles she wrote that have the world’s attention now:

Aanhin pa ang damo kung patay na ang kabayo?

To GMA News.TV and ABS-CBN’s BANDILA

If the DSWD needed volunteers, they should have asked for them. If no one heeded their call, they should have looked for alternatives. It is their duty.

EDIT:

I just logged on to my Twitter feed and found Tweets about Rock Ed Philippines organizing volunteers to finally do something about the stockpile of goods awaiting repacking and distribution. More info can be found here:

How to help our DSWD

Map and Info DSWD Warehouse

Still, isn’t it infuriating that private citizens and civic organizations are the ones reaching out to DSWD to do something about these goods rather than the other way around? If you can go and volunteer, please do.