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Veritas Vitas NG Tondo

The documentary Vitas ng Tondo showed the living conditions of families residing in Vitas, a community intended as temporary housing for residents of Smokey Mountains. It profiled Michelle, a mother who supports her 9 children through scavenging. Though honorable, scavenging does not provide enough for her family's needs. Some residents resort to solvent sniffing due to hunger. The documentary highlights the poverty, lack of access to food, health issues, and unsanitary conditions faced by the Vitas community. Improving access to decent jobs, food donations, healthcare, clean water, sanitation, and economic opportunities could help address some of the problems experienced by residents.

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Veritas Vitas NG Tondo

The documentary Vitas ng Tondo showed the living conditions of families residing in Vitas, a community intended as temporary housing for residents of Smokey Mountains. It profiled Michelle, a mother who supports her 9 children through scavenging. Though honorable, scavenging does not provide enough for her family's needs. Some residents resort to solvent sniffing due to hunger. The documentary highlights the poverty, lack of access to food, health issues, and unsanitary conditions faced by the Vitas community. Improving access to decent jobs, food donations, healthcare, clean water, sanitation, and economic opportunities could help address some of the problems experienced by residents.

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VITAS NG TONDO
GOAL: To relate the 17 Sustainable developmental goals to the documentary Vitas ng
Tondo.
1. Make a reflection about the documentary Vitas ng Tondo.
Jay Taruc's documentary titled "Vitas ng Tondo" showed the status of the families
living in Vitas, a place that should only be a temporary housing for the residents of
Smokey Mountains back in the 90’s but has become their permanent homes since then.
He featured some people residing in Vitas and showed a glimpse of their lives. One of
the featured people is Michelle, a mother who provides for her 9 children by scavenging.
Although this is an honorable work, it is not a decent work. The money she gets isn’t
enough for her family’s everyday needs. As I watched the video, it really breaks my heart
seeing them like that. They have no choice but to stay there because that’s the only place
they can earn and that is where their livelihood is. Some of them had to do “solvent
sniffing” in order for them not to feel hunger. They are trying their best to live a normal life
despite the situation they have. The video made me realize how lucky I am and I should
be grateful of everything I have now because not all people have the same privilege as
me. I shouldn’t be complaining about the food I eat and the things I get because not all
people can eat many food as me and can buy the things they want. I should be contented
in everything I have. And I hope one day, I can visit and help those people even in small
and simple things only because people like them deserves everything the world has to
offer.

2. Choose 5 sustainable developmental goals and relate it to the problems encountered


in the documentary

Sustainable Problem
Developmental encountered in Solution to the problem encountered
Goal the documentary
It is hard to eradicate poverty in our country but I
suggest they can find a new decent job or another
Living by job aside from scavenging. I am not saying
1 No Poverty scavenging scavenging is not a decent job…it is honorable but
not decent because they don’t have a fix salary in
that work that leads to poverty.
I can suggest that those people who have privilege
Little money to buy should try to do a donation and give them to the
2 Zero Hunger food people in vitas tondo so that even in small amount of
money per family, they can help them.
I think some medical professionals should visit the
3 Good Health and Malnourished
place and have a free check-up. Also, they should
Well-being children, People
be taught that using solvent is bad in our health.
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resorting to use
“Solvent”
This is very hard to have a solution because in the
first place, their houses are surrounded by garbage.
4 Clean Water and Garbage I think having a clean and good supply of water is a
Sanitation everywhere must. For the sanitation, even though they live in a
place like that, their house should be always clean
and sanitize.
As I said in the first solution, they should try to find
5 Decent Work
Resident’s main another job so that they can have a fix salary and it
and Economic
source of income will be a big help not just for them but also for their
Growth
is by scavenging family.

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