A Tour around Barangay San Antonio

As we arrived in Barangay San Antonio (a local village), we were greeted by the amiable neighbours who lived in the village, but this was not what caught my attention. The first impression of my arrival in Barangay San Antonion was the contrasting view of the modern tower blocks surrounding Barangay San Antonio. I guess for me, this reflects the wide gap of differences between the rich and the poor living in the Philippines. Despite living in such harsh condition, Barangay San Antonio managed to be the richest barangay among all. They are improving and making progresses for their community as a whole. They help out each other by teaching kids in the San Antonio Day Care Center and being firefighters voluntarily. Their station for emergency are tents big enough for the firefighters to fit the equipments they have without much space left for all the firefighters to fit in. They do not have air conditioners in the tents too for the hot weathers in the Philippines. However, all of these will change in just one month, when the station would be finished. By the way our advisers from the Barangay San Antonio talked about it, you can tell how exciting everyone is about having a new and perhaps a permanent emergency station. After this trip, I realized we often forget how lucky we are to be educated. Fifty percent of the delighted children do not have a chance to be educated even when they want to, but this doesn't mean that they are not smart. In fact, they might be smarter than any single one of us. I think it is important for us to often remind ourselves that there are things that we can do to help the others. We can all start by making the first step which is visiting the villages and see what we can do to make a change! :)