We know that decent jobs are hard to come by, so for everyday subsistence, some Filipinos sell their body parts. “Pobreng Pinoy” shows folks who have sold their skin, teeth, blood and one even his left eye in exchange for money.
In this documentary film, I was totally shocked to see the real state of the Philippines’ Economic, especially the conditions of our fellow Filipinos particularly in Manila. It’s sad to think that people sell their body parts just to have a food for their stomach and for their family’s needs. For me it is not right to sell the body parts that God had given you, it is because that body doesn’t belong to you and nevertheless it is God’s possession, He let you use it and enjoy with it.

I cannot blame also the people who sold some parts of their body since they badly needed the money. They have no work to provide their daily needs and they don’t have the enough knowledge to gain the money exchange to the parts of their body.

Like the man who sold his left eye just to have money so that he can give it to his family in the province. He sacrificed the constant pain that he will bring for the rest of his life in a P 250,000.

Poverty is the root of our daily problems as of today’s living. We can also feel the crisis in our home, especially when our parents will educate us the importance of money and how to use the money wisely. Even in middle class community and high class community, they all feel the crisis that our country experiencing today.

We may blame the leaders in our community, but we need first to reflect if we are the right person to blame them. We should consider the things that we do, because the leaders may give you what you really need, like job, but we need to cooperate to them. We need to do something in order for us to achieve what we really want to achieve.