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Kara David

The documentary follows children from the Mangyan tribe in Oriental Mindoro who use makeshift rafts to carry and sell crops in order to help support their families financially. Due to the remote location of their village and lack of infrastructure, the children are unable to regularly attend school and have no opportunity to pursue education beyond elementary level. Every Friday, the children miss class to make the long and difficult journey down the mountain and across the river to sell goods in town, as this is their family's only means of livelihood and survival. The documentary highlights the hardships faced by the Mangyan people living in poverty with limited access to education, opportunities, and basic infrastructure that most urban Filipinos take for granted.

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Kara David

The documentary follows children from the Mangyan tribe in Oriental Mindoro who use makeshift rafts to carry and sell crops in order to help support their families financially. Due to the remote location of their village and lack of infrastructure, the children are unable to regularly attend school and have no opportunity to pursue education beyond elementary level. Every Friday, the children miss class to make the long and difficult journey down the mountain and across the river to sell goods in town, as this is their family's only means of livelihood and survival. The documentary highlights the hardships faced by the Mangyan people living in poverty with limited access to education, opportunities, and basic infrastructure that most urban Filipinos take for granted.

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Nenia Bendo 12- Humss-A

Daang Ilog
By: Kara David
The 2014 documentary when Kara
David went to Sitio Nawasak in Barangay
Lisap, Bongabong Oriental Mindoro. There
she met a group of mangyan children
named Ligawon, Marvin and Erwin who
used makeshift rafts to carry their good
across the river to reach buyers. At young
mind of the children, they are eager to work
to help their parent instead of playing and
go to school to study hard they prefer to
work to help alleviate poverty. Most of the
mangyan people graduate from elementary
that are present in their sitio but there is no
one from the tribe have the opportunity to
go to high school and college due to
hardships of life in the mountain and the
distance of their sitio from the town where
high school and college are available and
that the only source of livelihood is selling
crops, bananas, sweet potatoes, flax,
vegetable’s and others that they can sell in
nearby towns. Every Friday the group of
Ligawon, Marvin, and Erwin choose to miss
their class in that day to go down in the
mountain and carry the goods they have.
Their teachers have nothing to do with it
they respect the decision of those mangyan
children because they can see in their
situation that they need it to fill their
personal needs. However, going down in the
mountain to go to town to sell their goods
are not easy as you think. Because they are
in a remote area where the pave roads will
not reach due to the lack of government
budget, they walk hundred kilometers,
enable to reach the town in a short period of
time the river serves as the alternative way
for them. They use the ‘balsa’’or the raft
made from bamboo and ‘salbabida’ or the
life preserver as alternative vehicles used to
ride goods and them. Even it is dangerous
to drift off in the cold raging river they still
risk they life at the young age, because they
have no choice to complain, poverty hit
them. The river has played a big role in the
livelihood of the mangyan people this river
has become a bridge to alleviate the needs,
but there is a danger in its path.
In this situation faced by the mangyan
people the Article 14 section 2 can be
applied.
After watching this documentary it made
me sad and realized that we are still blessed
because we walk in a paved road compare
to mangyan people who travelling in
narrow road, we have the opportunity to
ride vehicles to get where we are going , eat
a rice tree times or four times a day,
experience the memorable moment of being
a child and lastly we have easy access to
school and education , we are lucky that we
don’t need to go into that dangerous
situation just to earn money because there
is a lot of opportunities to us to find a
comfortable occupation to sustain our daily
needs. A new realization attached to my
mind that there’s still a place where not
experiencing changes and development. Not
all the people are in technology. There are
places like mangyan tribe who’s still living
from the way it is from the past. In such
matters the 1987 Constitution of the
Philippines are related and connected. The
constitution stated that all Filipino citizen
has the right for the free access of education
and enables students to remember and
embrace their basic rights as a people and
the basic principles by which our society
has been organized.

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