Gaining Independence From Poverty

 

There is some truth to the saying that in the Philippines, the rich becomes richer, the poor becomes poorer.  But not most of the time.

While there may be a big portion of the Filipino today that are living below poverty line, an average poor Filipino can rely on his or her innate talent of ingenuity to come up with means to pull him or her from her present state.  The Filipinos’ hardworking trait will work positively for him as he strives hard to gain independence from poverty, from not having enough to getting along just fine.

 I have seen poverty at its worst and I could just wonder idly how a person or a family for that matter could combat the same with some amount of ingenuity and hard work.  I have this gut feel that it will work.  It will.

First, I will try to update myself with some agencies or institution within my community that can help me in my present status.  I am sure there are establishments out there who can provide me with some opportunities.  I’ll probably start by   improving my network and become visible to many possibilities. 

Like for instance, there are a lot of agencies who are into micro finance and target those marginalized poor in the community.  They are of great help.  These agencies can actually provide poor members of the society like me some opportunities    to enable me to become self reliant by providing loans with minimal interest with achievable requirements to start a small scale business.  Before a loan is granted, a borrower also has to undergo some form of training or seminar on how to sustain the small scale business whereupon he is likewise educated to become self reliant as to pay the loan obligation.

I would have to choose a particular business that would generate a modest income.  Perhaps the kind that never runs out of style regardless of anything be it rain or shine.  Of course it has to be something that I am particularly interested in.  A modest food business like an eatery would be my top priority as eating is an activity that will never go out of style among all people born with stomach plus the fact that aside from hard work, it does not necessarily entail too much start-up investment.  One can even start this up with a few hundred and rotate the proceeds of the day for next days’ operation.  It can even save the entire family’s food budget while earning at the same time. 

They say there is also a lot of money in junk business, so, I might probably consider that one too. 

Whatever business one is into, he had to put his heart into it 100 percent.  Most of all, before embarking into a particular business, it has to be granted that one has already made and done a feasibility or case study whereupon it showed a big chance of it to succeed .

On the other hand, there are a lot of available free livelihood trainings in a community or parish by which one can readily avail and could become a good business opportunity too.  The choices are actually plenty, one really just have to be updated or build up a network and become visible.

Know your strengths or skills as well.  It actually becomes your passport for particular job opportunities around.  For instance if you are a carpenter, electrician or a plumber or a nurse or teacher and jobless at the moment, you can actually put a signage in front of your house for any job that you can offer for a fee  in your community on call. Visibility is the key.  A teacher can offer tutorial services, a nurse some nursing skills that only her or his profession alone can administer like taking vital signs with assessment and health teaching, wound dressing or administering injections.

The power to change our life’s condition is in our hands.  The poor becomes poorer only if we do not do something about it.  Success does not come to those who only waited for it.  It comes only to those who will it and work hard for it.  There are always rooms for people who are industrious enough to achieve their goal in life. 

 Life is actually sweeter if success is earned through hard work.  The bottom line is always hard work as it always comes with a good price.