For the first two months of lockdown, the government had no policy to allow stranded Filipinos to go back to their home provinces. The effort only came through a memorandum on May 13 issued by the National Task Force Against COVID-19. READ:
While the Duterte government prioritizes over 24,000 stranded OFWs, it has no count of non-OFW Filipinos stranded in Metro Manila and other provinces.
Stranded Filipinos are excluded in reference lists for relief packs because they are not voters in the area they temporarily live in. As the government prioritized stranded OFWs – a strand of the Philippine population where President Duterte commands– it has failed to grant the same services to stranded Filipinos in Metro Manila who came from the provinces: the probinsyanos.
Not being afforded the same urgency as their recently returned counterparts, they have felt abandoned by the national government, the local governments of the cities they are stranded in, and the local governments of their homes.DESK-BOUND. Recky Colonia at his desk in his rented unit in Muntinlupa City. Photo from Colonia
He rented a bed in an apartment in Muntinlupa City with 3 other men he did not know before. At 34, he learned to prepare adobo, sinigang, and tinola using the ricecooker he bought before the malls shuttered.,” he said in a phone interview with Rappler. While waiting, Recky found that many fellow Cebuanos were entangled in the same predicament. Most of them were not as fortunate as Recky to have sustaining savings and responsive local governments to process their papers.
“Hope your office can help us, w’ere here for more than 2 months, no work, no income, some are Tesda students, some are only here for documents processing, some already lost their jobs…Almost all of us [are] out of budget, we were not able to get some financial assistance in any government offices,” Recky said in his concluding message.Sa amin mga LSI, bakit nila naging priority ang mga OFW eh ang mga OFW nga dumating dito may perang sarili, may kinikita 'yan bago umuwi dito.
They have received no cash aid from the national government. They had no money left to buy soap and shampoo.They applied for inclusion in theBarangay staffers told them to list their names and come back within two to 3 days. When they returned, they were told the barangay captain was too preoccupied to face them.They applied with the wrong program.
Alfie Pateno came to Metro Manila in January 2018, then a 20-year-old high school graduate who wanted to singlehandedly lift his broken family from poverty in Nabunturan, Davao de Oro.
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