POVERTY

Poverty in the Philippines is a serious problem that affects a third of the population and
includes 30 million families who earn less than $1.25 a day It is caused by
corruption, lack of education and health care, political conflicts, natural disasters, low
economic growth, a weak agricultural sector, increased population rates and a high
volume of inequality Poverty contributes to social ills such as crime, health problems,
and malnutrition.

Many Filipinos are unable to afford housing and turn to the streets for accommodation.
Some Filipinos leave the country to pursue careers abroad that pay more. According to
official government statistics, in 2021, the Philippine poverty rate rose to 18.1% or
roughly 19.99 million Filipinos, after the COVID-19 pandemic hampered years of
government poverty reduction efforts this was higher than the 16.6% or 17.67 million
recorded in 2018 but lower than the 25.2% poverty rate recorded in 2012.

DISCRIMINATION
Discrimination is the differential or less favourable treatment of persons or groups for
reasons of certain traits. It can occur in various settings, such as school, work, or public
places. It can result in harm, disadvantage, stress, or legal consequences for the targets
of discrimination. The law prohibits discrimination based on age, disability, genetic
information, national origin, race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, gender identity, sexual
orientation, or relationship to another person.

The Philippine society is full of discrimination. Crazy as it may seem but it is very
rampant that it becomes a hobby for other people. People discriminate without even
realizing that they are committing a serious mistake. What’s sad about this prejudicial
treatment is that it exists everywhere and can happen anytime.
It may be at school, in a workplace, or even at one’s home. What’s even sadder is that,
it is being disregarded by a lot of people and somehow treated as if it is not an alarming
issue—that is why discrimination doesn’t stop. A lot of people are becoming a victim of
this treatment, the same thing with people who commits this action.

INEQUALITY
Inequality refers to the phenomenon of unequal and/or unjust distribution of resources
and opportunities among members of a given society. The term inequality may mean
different things to different people and in different contexts.
Inequality remains high: the top 1 percent of earners together captures 17 percent of
national income, with only 14 percent being shared by the bottom 50 percent. With an
income Gini coefficient of 42.3 percent in 2018, the Philippines had one of the highest
rates of income inequality in East Asia. Unequal opportunities, lack of access to tertiary
education and a scarcity of skills, coupled with inequality in returns to college education,
gendered social norms and childcare, and spatial gaps, sustain inequality.
DATA IN BRGY. KALAYAAN

Kalayaan is a barangay in the municipality of Angono in province of Rizal. Its population

as determined by the 2020 Census was 20,170. This represented 15.46% of the total
population of Angono. Kalayaan is one of the biggest Brgy. In Angono it has many
different parts. The area where we choose research about is Kandrenai a part of Brgy.
Kalayaan in Angono Rizal. Kandrenai one of the populated area in Angono Rizal, as the
population progressively increasing the number of households also increases.
Some of the people living out there were from another place that has been relocate by
the government and some of them just have relatives out there and build their own
house. The population still increases as time goes by.
Combining age groups together, those aged 14 and below, consisting of the young
dependent population which include infants/babies, children and young
adolescents/teenagers, make up an aggregate of 30.61% (5,159). Those aged 15 up to
64, roughly, the economically active population and actual or potential members of the
work force, constitute a total of 65.75% (11,081). Finally, old dependent population
consisting of the senior citizens, those aged 65 and over, total 3.64% (614) in all.
The population of Kalayaan grew from 5,516 in 1990 to 20,170 in 2020, an increase of
14,654 people over the course of 30 years. The latest census figures in 2020 denote a
positive growth rate of 3.85%, or an increase of 3,316 people, from the previous
population of 16,854 in 2015.

POVERTY IN BRGY. KALAYAAN

Since Brgy. Kalayaan has many different parts it has also a lot people residing in, the
most part of Brgy. Kalayaan with most poverty are in kandrenai, According to the
authorities in the mentioned Brgy. Poverty is everywhere there from the houses, roads
and people residing. The other Roads hasn’t fix yet and the canals out there was
extremely clogged that’s why it is more prone on flood. They are the people that gets
evacuated when there’s a hard rain or typhoon and also the houses there are most
made from woods that is not really strong enough to hold still when there’s typhoon.

INEQUALITY AND DISCRIMINATION IN BRGY.KALAYAAN

Since the Brgy. Suffers from poverty, when there’s a robbery happens they are the
most blamed by other people living near. It just other people telling that they are the one
who’s in need and they are the one who really commits a crime like that, its just people
already know they can only do that without any evidence.
The Brgy. Suffers from poverty and they tend to buy more of their daily needs than their
clothes, the kids being bullied by the students for having a broke, torn and faded
uniforms. Sometimes they feel isolated from other students for the reason that they
can’t buy new clothes and uniform.
SOLUTION AND PROGRAM OF THE PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT TO REDUCE THE
POVERTY

What is Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program?

• Pantawid Pamilya is a conditional cash transfer (CCT) program that provides cash
grants to poor households with children 0‐14 years old and/or pregnant mothers,
provided that they comply with the conditions set by the program.
• It is a social assistance program that provides conditional cash assistance to the poor
to alleviate their immediate needs(short term poverty alleviation); and
• It is a social development program that aims to break the intergenerational poverty
cycle through investments in human capital.

What is KALAHI-CIDSS?
• The Kapit‐Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan ‐ Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of
Social Services or Kalahi‐ CIDSS program is a poverty alleviation program of the DSWD
that uses a community‐driven development (CDD) approach. The program provides
resources to poor rural municipalities for public goods investment and promote people’s
participation in governance.

KALAHI-CIDSS empowers community by giving them a chance to identify their problem,

recommend solutions and implement such. Photo shows a volunteer proposing for their
community project to be funded by KALAHI.
KALAHI-CIDSS empowers community by giving them a chance to identify their problem,
recommend solutions and implement such. Photo shows a volunteer proposing for their
community project to be funded by KALAHI.n in governance.
• Kalahi‐CIDSS uses the community-driven development approach to empower local
communities through capacity building and implementation support for participation in
local governance and provision of barangay grants for involvement in the design and
implementation of poverty‐reduction projects.
Social Pension
The Social Pension for Indigent Senior Citizens is one of the provisions stated under
Section 5 Republic Act 9994 otherwise known as the Expanded Senior Citizens Act of
2010
Objectives:
Social Pension is an additional government assistance in the amount of Five Hundred
Pesos Only (P500.00) monthly stipend to augment the daily subsistence and other
medical needs of indigent senior citizens, subject to a review every two years by
Congress in consultation with the DSWD.

WHAT IS THE SUPPLEMENTARY FEEDING PROGRAM?

The Supplementary Feeding Program is the provision of food, in addition to the regular
meals, to currently enrolled day care center children. This is in the form of hot meals,
as recommended by Food and Nutrition Research Institute (FNRI), and served during
break time to children in day care center.
Beneficiaries of the program are three-year-old and four-year-old children not in the
Department of Education pre-school children but in day care.
This program is implemented in response to the 2006 Family Income and Expenditure
Survey (FIES) conducted by the National Statistics Office which should that 11 percent
of Filipino families had income that cannot buy the food needed by family members for
nutritional wel-being and health. These families can be considered as hungry and food
poor. Along with Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program, KALAHI-CIDSS or Kapit Bisig
Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services and
Sustainable Livelihood Program, Supplementary Feeding seeks to achieve Millennium
Development Goal No. 1, which is eradicating extreme poverty and hunger.

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