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HEADING
HEDCOR
(3rd of the 3 Series)
By
DOUGLAS RA. CAGAS
LLB, MBE, MNSA
Sometimes
in the long years of experience, there are moments when like
a child, we wish to grab that sparkles in the sky. We want
to reach high for that sparkles. We don’t want to let
them pass, for if we do, they will not come again, and we
will have missed its brightness. What I mean are the four
road openings that HEDCOR Sibulan, Inc. had started few days
before the ‘ceremonial groundbreaking’ took place.
According to sources, these road openings are, Darong to Sibulan,
Cavarizan to Sibulan, Tibolo to Sibulan, and Marawer to Lower
Tudaya. These roads when completed will eventually serve as
an avenue for the crops to be transported conveniently and
fast into the market. The Bagobo-Tagabawa as well as the migrant
farmers whom I love, and who are also the crop growers in
this area, will experience an end from their agony of working
more, yet with minimal profit due to the absence of access
road for their crops. These road openings seem those sparkles
in the sky I wish to grab. Not for my own benefit but for
the benefit of those less fortunate settlers in the area.
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Through
the years, these people used to hear road construction and
development promises from politicians during election time.
Leaders come and go, but the area remains the same. I am also
a politician and I feel how hard it would be to build roads
and bridges within the span of three years like HEDCOR Sibulan,
Inc. is intending to construct in the area. Project initiative
of private entity is far more compelling than government project,
in which the term of office for three years is always teased
and intimidated whether one will be re-elected. I am talking
in terms of reality and not by way of cleverly concocted myth.
We have to learn and to exercise our uniquely human ability
to respond to the clamor of the needy. We have to always do
what we can not yet do, in order to learn how to do it, for
the benefit of the majority. That Bagobo-Tagabawa tribe as
well as that migrant farmers continuous agony of inequality
as to existence must have that point of an end.
Furthermore, I learned that HEDCOR Sibulan, Inc. is committed
to help the communities that host its operation. The taxes
they would pay to these communities will be a source of funds
for communities to finance watershed preservation activities,
infrastructure developments, irrigation projects, water system,
and even seed money for multi-purpose cooperatives and livelihood
projects. This project really benefits Barangays Sibulan and
Darong, LGU-Sta. Cruz, and the Province of Davao del Sur.
HEDCOR Sibulan, Inc. is also willing to preserve and protect
the upland as well as the marine resources in the lowland
by way of their willingness to financially support the development
thrust of ‘Passig’, an islet situated at Bato,
Sta. Cruz, Davao del Sur. This islet called ‘Passig’
will be the home of the sentinels of the fish sanctuary of
Tagabuli Bay and Bato shoreline. An intention so noble, that
goes with my goal for the good of the people and environment.
Forfeiting
that unique human ability to decide for the good of the majority
is not wise. God did not grant any of us that ability merely
for us to neglect it! God expects that we use it and take
control of how we live. From all facts gathered, with priceless
life lessons and a deeper knowledge of myself that could not
have been learned except through facing the challenging situation
I encountered; I, therefore, support and endorse HEDCOR Sibulan,
Inc.. This is the verdict. A verdict based from the understanding
of the voice of the people and environment. I do this, because
I firmly believe that love is greater than fear.
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