{"id":637,"date":"2013-11-02T20:30:04","date_gmt":"2013-11-03T03:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/66.147.244.209\/~canadiu3\/?p=637"},"modified":"2014-01-16T10:48:43","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T18:48:43","slug":"eduque-ngos-suffering-backlash-from-pork-barrel-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2013\/11\/02\/eduque-ngos-suffering-backlash-from-pork-barrel-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Eduque: \u2018NGOs suffering backlash from pork barrel scam\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Photo courtesy of Habitat for Humanity PH Facebook page<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Alexandra Mandrigal Eduque was recently named the world’s most outstanding volunteer and she believes that non-government organizations are enduring the repercussions of the pork barrel scam.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAll of a sudden, all these NGOs have been generalized and stigmatized\u2026 If people only knew how painstaking it is to raise funds for a worthy cause,\u201d Eduque,\u00a0<\/span>a\u00a023-year-old volunteer for Habitat for Humanity Philippines (HFHP), said.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI have a lot of friends who are also advocates and who are suffering. It\u2019s not fair to be suffering from this when you are an NGO who is really doing something. That\u2019s the sad reality of things. When one makes mistakes everyone else suffers,\u201d she continued.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Photo courtesy of Alexandra Eduque<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Eduque shared that Habitat for Humanity Philippines’ ability to raise funds have been affected because of its classification as a non-government organization and the ongoing controversy about the misuse of government officials’ priority development assistance fund (PDAF) or pork barrel.<\/span><\/p>\n

About three months ago, the Commission on Audit released a special audit report revealing tat around P10 billion pesos of 72 legislators’ PDAF were given to bogus NGOs to fund ghost projects.
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\u201cNGO? Isn\u2019t that corrupt? You have to explain that it\u2019s not the case,\u201d Eduque said. “Instead of spending 30 minutes to meet a donor, it becomes one and a half hours because the rest of the 45 minutes will be spent explaining that it\u2019s a worthy cause.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite the new challenge posed by the controversies, Eduque said that HFHP volunteers are not discouraged from continuing the fulfillment of Habitat’s mission and vision by providing the poor with appropriate shelter and uplifting their quality of life.<\/span><\/p>\n

With reports from Alexis Romero and GMA News Online.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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