 The
residents beside the dumpsite are only temporarily living in
that area, because they earn money in the garbage and the
families don't have enough money to have their own home,
that's why for the meantime even if it's really hard to live
because according to them they have to take the risk of
acquiring different diseases for they don't have any place
to build their houses and they are not well educated to find a better job. According
also to some of the residents, when you live there for a
long time everything is just nothing, as if it is a normal
life just like the other families living in a clean and well
surrounded place. "When you live here for a
long time, as if our body is immune in different diseases".
The Barangay Valle Cruz with their Barangay Captain Eduardo
Samonte said that the government are helping them to
minimize the garbage in the dumpsite, and to lessen the
cause of disease. With the cooperation of city government
and residents of Cabanatuan City and Valle Cruz they
segregate the garbage and they have some seminar for the
families to teach them on how to segregate the garbage,
teach them to recycle the garbage and make it useful things
in their home. In case of acquiring diseases they also teach
everyone in each family to clean their
surroundings to prevent the carrier of disease.
Some residents of Barangay Valle Cruz Purok 1-A are helping
in segregating non-biodegradable and biodegradable garbage,
that's why we cannot force them to go to other place even if
they have to suffer their own health.
Last December 30, 2008, they
started to close the dumpsite of the Valle Cruz, but they
have to close only 75% of the dumpsite, and for the
meantime, the 25% is open to dump the garbage for six months.
The local government officials
are looking for a machine to grind the garbage and to make it
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