Tags: Elections, Labor and Employment
By Anna Valmero
CABUYAO, LAGUNA – Residents of Barangay Banay-Banay in Cabuyao, a first class municipality in this province, are hoping newly proclaimed local leaders will fulfill their clamor for jobs, healthcare and basic education.
Roberta Sarmiento, 69, working as a house help, wants their town’s newly elected local officials to provide more jobs. Despite her age, Aling Betay is still working to support her family and a niece, who, she says, is having difficulty landing a job.
She also says it would be good if they can avail of free medicine from the barangay health center and that a doctor or nurse be available at all times.
“Hindi naman sa umaasa, pero pag lumapit sa center minsan walang gamot. Noong ako’y ubuhin kaso masama daw ang timpla ng doktora, ayun walang tumingin sa akin (Sometimes our village health center doesn’t have medicines or a doctor is unavailable),” Aling Betay says. Instead of cough syrup, she just drank a concoction made of oregano leaves.
For 53-year-old Eliza Baring, also house help and a mother of three, she is hoping for lower tuition in the local university (Pamantasan ng Cabuyao) to ease the burden of sending her children to school.
“Gusto ko sana madagdagan pa ang school, bumaba ang tuition fee para yung mga susunod na kulang sa pera, makapag aral din sila. Kahit ‘yung maliliit ng sweldo ang mga magulang nila, gusto ko makatapos din sila (I hope there will be more schools, or tuition will decrease to allow parents to send more children to school),” she says.
She says it is also necessary that graduates would have permanent job opportunities instead of five-month contractual jobs in multinational corporations located in the town’s industrial park. She also wants to take part in livelihood projects such as making handicrafts, as an additional source of income.
Her husband, Domingo Baring Jr., a tricycle driver, meanwhile, is hoping the next local administration will finish constructing the town’s long-overdue wet market. He is also hoping that the municipal hall allot funds for small loans for residents like him who wish to start a business.
For Francis Canlas, ensuring peace and order should be a top priority. Recently, a barbershop employee was shot by unidentified men along a national highway. Just days after, another resident was gunned down while eating in a lugawan.
“Sana may barangay o mobile police car na 24 hours na roving para maiwasan ito. (I hope there are roving police cars 24 hours a day to prevent more killings),” Francis says.
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