Wasn't
exactly enthusiastic nor even delighted to hear about this so called PWD's
invitation (person with disabilities invitation from the local social service)
coming the town hall from the start.
However since I gave my word that I will attend their invitation when the
social workers visited a couple of days ago, I decided to went ahead - after
all this for my dad's sake, and dad's was actually the one invited and not me -
I'm only serving as a guardian and tag along on dad since he could barely walk.
As
expected, the reception and treatment we got from the municipal hall of cainta
rizal was pathetic and mediocre at best. It’s a good thing that we came there
as a group along with other PWD's (people with disability) and there's a cab
that fetched us to and from the municipal hall of cainta Rizal. To summarized
it looked more like a PWD field trip rather than a social service kind of help.
We did get help from the social services department on medical assistance part
but they just handed out 20 pcs of pain killer tablets (all generic) and told
us not to bother them again.
The same
thing goes when our group was asking financial assistance from the staff on the
social services department, office of the mayor. They told us that they can't
help us and that the mayor wasn't in "his office" ( what ?! The mayor
is not at work during office days and office hours ??? ). Probably the mayor is
not interested at all meeting people with disabilities and senior citizens 60
yrs old and up - all are voter's in his domain. In any case personally I never
liked the idea of "financial assistance" on the fact that it sounded
more of like begging rather than helping , but either way help or not. The
mayor was no public servant.
At early
afternoon, a cab came in on the Municipal Hall to fetch us back and return our
group to their homes.
Like I said
on my previous blog entries that public service in the Philippines is none
existent and pathetic, a person is lucky enough to find a friendly social
worker. Almost all of the Filipino social workers are hostile and loathe
helping the poor (and even the local citizenry). They are totally unfit as a
public servant and boggles my mind on why they even end up as charity workers
in the first place. As much as possible avoid asking help from them and a
person is better off without them.
