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Barangay Aplaya, Santa Rosa City, Laguna<\/span><\/h1>\n
by Sylvia D. Clemente<\/span><\/h6>\n

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I always ponder on the many contradictions of this small barangay\u00a0<\/em>located along the lake shore of Laguna Lake.\u00a0The first time we visited it\u2019s impossible not to see it as one of the poorer barangays\u00a0<\/em>in Santa Rosa as you are greeted by the very narrow streets and alleys, old bridges that cut across a number of silted esteros<\/em>, dilapidated wooden houses, street hawkers peddling food, and children playing on the streets.\u00a0 It\u2019s a lively community with its public space full of life as people go about their day-to-day activities and the ubiquitous tricycles darting in and out of the main street.<\/p>\n

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The main street is the heart of the community and is where you get a glimpse of its character.\u00a0 Churches of all denominations from Iglesia ni Cristo, Aglipayan Church, to Born Again, line up along this busy street. \u00a0The people are very religious, friendly to outsiders, are generally content and do not demand much from the government.\u00a0 They live and co-exist peacefully regardless of religious denominations.\u00a0 In a nation that is predominantly Roman Catholic (around 70% because of Spanish colonization), this small\u00a0barangay\u00a0<\/em>appears to be an anomaly.<\/p>\n

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They are resourceful, hardworking, resilient, and self-reliant, no doubt.\u00a0You can see sari-sari stores<\/em>(convenience stores), talipapa<\/em>(small wet markets selling fish, vegetables, and carinderia\/<\/em>home-cook food),\u00a0 water stations (selling purified drinking water for lack of potable water with majority still using artesian wells), and ambulatory vendors with their makeshift pushcarts sellingkakanin<\/em>\/street food. \u00a0Some of the residents work abroad as domestic helpers to support their family back home; the young with limited schooling work in the factories in the light industrial park of Santa Rosa.\u00a0 Others work in offices, \u00a0while some have their small businesses (formal and informal).\u00a0 There are fewer and fewer fishermen now, so I am told, as Laguna Lake becomes less sustainable for fishing because of its environmental problems (siltation, illegal fishpens, pollution from industries, etc.).\u00a0 I have personally witnessed the environmental degradation when I went around the Laguna Lake with a fisherman.<\/p>\n

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For now, the local government approved a PPP (public-private partnership) eco-tourism project to be built along the lakeshore which will reclaim and transform it into a mixed-use\/recreational park.\u00a0 The newly elected barangay president of the Bantay Lawa<\/em>, a volunteer group of fishermen that police the Laguna Lake against illegal activities, is in favour of it as it will provide them with open\/recreational space.\u00a0 They reminisce about their childhood days when the lakeshore with its parola <\/em>\u00a0used to be a place where people would stroll and rest at the end of the day.\u00a0 It was a time when the lake was still clear and pristine with an abundance of fish and marine life.<\/p>\n

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