00:00We want to bring the national development to the barangay level.
00:04The first one is barangay development.
00:07Focusing on the barangays in the far-flung places.
00:13Barangays sa mga layo, barangays sa mga mahihirap.
00:17Those who are not receiving anything from the national government.
00:22So in our travels, in our visits across the country,
00:28we've been able to see for ourselves yung mga malalai barangay.
00:32Kung sa east naman siya, or sa mga innerlands,
00:36you will see how difficult life is for a barangay or communities in the far-flung.
00:43So that's why we're focusing on barangay development.
00:46And in my case, I'm focusing on two advocacies.
00:51Number one is water.
00:55They say, why water? I think all of us know my programs in Philippine.
00:58The issue today is there's no clean drinking water.
01:01No potable water.
01:03And if you look at the statistics, the data that's provided to us,
01:0853% of the country has, 53% of the Philippine households does not have safe drinking water.
01:18That's almost half of our income.
01:21That's why we said we have to find a way to fix the problem for water.
01:29Marami kasi yung water providers, pero hindi natin na bakit.
01:33Huli mo na-deliver yung mga commitments.
01:36Huli mo tawag yung mga bulk water suppliers. None.
01:39So once we win, you all unite,
01:43we intend to study.
01:45We bring in experts to find out, ano problema?
01:51Why is it the problem is so big?
01:54And water is basic.
01:56Why can't even a regular person drink water?
02:02So we're going to do that.
02:04Although meron kaming short-term solution.
02:07We have a filtration system that we're bringing to the far-flung barangays.
02:12So yan, nagawa namin, sinasample namin yung filtration.
02:18We get water from the faucet, hindi namin ang dumi,
02:21and we drink it in front of the community.
02:26But more than that, we really want to look for a permanent solution.
02:30So that's water.
02:32Second is affordable healthcare.
02:37The thing, nakikita namin pag-ikot is barangay health centers.
02:42Marami barangay health centers, pero walang laman.
02:46Diba?
02:47Mga siyempre isang sa barangay,
02:51doon palang magwe-awake yung barangay health center maghahanap ng gumot,
02:56or gahanap ng anong kailangan para matreat yung sugat o yung injury.
03:03Not only that.
03:05Gusto namin proactive.
03:06But we also want to see how we can bring down yung affordability ng gumot.
03:11Especially sa mga seniors.
03:13Ano yung health mga seniors?
03:15Affordable maintenance.
03:17I think that's one formula, diba?
03:20Maintenance.
03:21Wala naman yung benefit ko sa failed health maintenance,
03:24or other medical, even sa mga health insurance sa mga private companies.
03:30We don't see anything about maintenance.
03:33More preventive.
03:35So we want to find ways to bring down cost of medicines.
03:39I feel like that's part of the universal.
03:43Parti ko sa Bago Pilipino,
03:45we believe that our advocacy is really to help communities,
03:53to help people in the powerful communities.
03:57And by doing that, it can uplift the communities,
04:02re-empower the communities,
04:04re-empower the people in the communities to be self-sufficient.
04:08Not to be always just waiting for financial assistance or dole-outs.
04:15If that happens, the communities, they become lazy.
04:20Ayin na magtrabaho, itinteng na lang ayuda.
04:23We don't want that.
04:24We want to empower them.
04:25We want them to be able to work, do some business.
04:30That's why we feel that fixing the basic issues of water,
04:34fixing the basic issues of health, healthcare,
04:38that at least will give them a little more advantage
04:43in being able to do more things,
04:45rather than just waiting for assistance.
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