I see, I feel, I learn, I am
It was not a new thing to me. I have been faced with extreme poverty before. Disaster situations, evacuations, evacuation camps due to militarization, women in poverty, families living in flea infested camps, waiting for someone, anyone, to bring them three days’ supply of food while we prepare them and help them work on a more longer term change to their plight. But back then, I was looking at things as a young, very enthusiastic, messianic, as kigao would say, single person, with only myself to worry about, wanting to contribute something, anything to change the world. Some ten years or so ago, when I was working directly with beneficiaries, I guess I became immune-- so used to all that poverty I was regularly faced with it, and so busy with trying to do something about it that there was no time for emotions. I was regularly faced with how the world is unfair, with pain, with other people’s loss. Then something happened to me over the years as I became a mom of two, the levels of wor...