REWINDING OUR BRAINS

Next year, when we enrol students in social work and community development, I think we should require subjects on mathematics, and time management. These subjects will introduce to the students the need to be able to count money and the number of recipients of social benefits and services and find the corret matching of available resources with needs.

Why time management? This subject will teach the students the need for the social workers to observe urgent needs versus non-urgent needs. Non-urgent needs are those for help in putting up a daycare, putting up training workshops and the like. urgent needs are those where the release of funds will mean life and death. For example, when community residents are in need of the social amelioration funds now, that means after almost a month now of being quarantined, they have great need for ayuda or help to be able to eat decently.
And so now, the DSWD is pointing to the Local Government Units as the ones at fault for the delay of the social amelioration help. Then they are asking the citizens to complain to them and that there is a process for doing so.

This kind of thinking is what is called bureaucratic passive mental calisthenics.  Instead of being active social workers -- meaning they should release the funds to the LGUs yes, but dictate the time (as this time needs emergency funds) and day of release of the funds and not allow the LGUs to take their good time.

I don't really understand it when Philippine money, sourced from the taxes we have paid the government is being delayed in its release when the moneys are already in the bank. We have a very primitive view of money-in-money-out processes. There is too much power-wielding.

This week, I have not reeived any food pack. The last one was done two weeks ago. Luckily I have some savings which tide me over the lean days. But should that be the case all the time?

These times require rewinding our brains -- from narrow bureaucratic single-focused perspective to multilevel, multiperspective --to jump or to make that leap so that our people do not have to lose their patience too much which could cause faster descent to revolutionary thinking or death.