Friday, May 9, 2014
Simple living, breath taking view, fresh air, and where people will welcome you warmly; there’s no other place to be but in our lovely community where we call our second home. Zamboanga Sibugay is subdivided into 16 municipalities and one of the municipalities is Diplahan.
As a medical student of the Ateneo de Zamboanga University, we are being exposed and assigned to a particular community. We are to bring change as well as do health education. We also in turn learn a lot from our exposure.
Our community is
more or less sixteen kilometres away from the highway. We are assigned at
Barangay Luop, Diplahan, Zamboanga Sibugay. The main source of livelihood is
farming since its land area is surrounded by a large area of rice fields. Our
community is not as remote as what we expected. Actually, they are quite
progressive and capable on their own if it’s not for the flood that they often
experience every now and then. They have mini grocery stores, vendors of fresh
fish coming in from nearby barangay, the residents have many fruit trees and
they also have gardens of vegetables such as eggplants and string beans. The
houses are built not far from each other; they are mostly made up of mixed
materials while some houses are made up of light materials. They have 1
elementary school, a Health Center and a day care center. The roads going to
our barangay is paved and concrete except for some areas prior to reaching our
barangay.
Barangay Luop is
made up of six puroks. Barangay Luop is situated 40 kilometers away
from the provincial capitol. It has 6 puroks and bounded by Barangay Pilar at
the North; Barangay Minsulao at the East; Barangay Boyugan at the West and
Barangay Baligasan at the South boundary.The people
of our community are peace loving, hospitable and hardworking. To sum it all
up, out community is a wonderful place.
