Just outside of Bacolod City is the Bacolod Boy's Home. As the sign says it's a home for orphaned and abandoned boys.
Usually the gates are shut and whatever is happening behind them remains a mystery to the outside world. The boys are probably going to school and growing up learning to become men. Many good men have spent their formative days in this place.
Thirty years later the Bacolod Boys Home has grown and eventually increased the number of orphans served to 200. At present it also provides free basic education to more than 2,000 boys with promising careers. Many of them are now in the Integrated Police Force; Armed Forces of the Philippines, United States Navy, different career path and 10 became priests.
It is certainly too bad then that these boys are not learning the best way to dispose of garbage.
I saw two boys cross the street dragging one of those large, round, low, black rubber garbage cans. Immediately I was curious as to what was going on though it was rather apparent. They were dumping garbage in the woods.
Just look at all that garbage. Those boys didn't dump all that trash on the day I saw them. It looks like they only dumped the pile of waste near the top. But seeing how much garbage has accumulated and having witnessed those boys do it once it is more than certain that the Bacolod Boy's Home is illegally dumping their garbage in the woods. In fact the next time I was in the area I saw some boys standing around outside and I asked them if they dump garbage in the woods. They said yes.
In the center of the picture you can see the garbage can the boys were dragging. This road isn't exactly busy but it is well travelled and by massive sugarcane trucks. What irresponsible guardian told those boys to drag a heavy trash can across the street and illegally empty its contents in the woods? Just look at this guy. Did he tell them to dump the trash in the woods?
What other crazy stuff is happening behind those closed doors in the Bacolod Boy's Home? I shudder to think.
I have been sitting on this story for a few months. Everything above I wrote back in March. But the other day I was in the area again and decided to take a peep and see if garbage was still being illegally dumped. It is.
That is fresh Christmas garbage. Wrappers from presents tossed out into the woods. Here's a close-up:
The Bacolod Boy's Home is still illegally dumping garbage down the side of a ravine or gully and will likely continue to do so. What a shame.
Boys will be boys...... ����
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