Buklod as a Movement

Buklod is a movement designed to bring together and organize like-minded Filipinos who wish to pursue and make much-delayed improvements in the lives of the Filipino people.  For the past six decades, the elected and other leaders of the nation have failed miserably to uplift the economic well-being of most Filipinos.  In fact, the nation’s development has declined in relative terms compared with its neighbors and its peers since the end of the Second World War.  Practically every form of public service has deteriorated and continues to deteriorate – education, health care and nutrition, peace and order, police protection, environment protection, waste disposal and many others.  The nation’s important institutions are weakened and continue to break down– the educational system, the judicial system, the electoral system, and the legislative and executive functions of government.  There is rampant graft and corruption that appears to afflict all levels of government.  This has resulted in a distorted and unfair distribution of economic benefits and retarded growth for the nation.  The present leaders appear helpless and do not show any motivation to eradicate this scourge.  Poverty and lack of human shelter continue to plague the nation, and efforts at alleviating these worst kinds of human degradation have not improved.  Worse, the number of people who barely meet the lowest level of subsistence requirements, and are therefore deprived of proper nutrition, is increasing and there seems to be no solution in sight to stop this growing crisis.