BASURERO “Kung-Hei Bachoy”(Documentaries)

BASURERO “Kung-Hei Bachoy”
I WITNESS


HOST
Jay Taruc


CAST
Alma
“mambabachoy”

Jennifer
Bachoy queen

Jessie de Gusman
“tambakero”

Adoracion Baloran

Tabian Baloran

Ronald
“batang-tambakero”

Proceso dela Cruz

Luzviminda Garfile

Jaime Placides
Former “tambakero” and owner of junkshop

Fr. Benigno Beliran

Angela Villacorta






SYNOPSIS

Basurero is one of the most recent episodes. It tackled the basic problem in urban areas – garbage. Jay Taruc gave basurero story a human face by telling the stories of different basureros – people who live off garbage.
The first case study was a family who lives in an overpass in Cubao. They are called “Magbabatchoy.” They look for food in the trash – usually from fast food restaurants. They ask permission from the guard if they can get the garbage left by the customers. They get the left over chickens, fish or vegetables, which they re-cook. But sometimes they eat it on the spot. Nakakasukang isipin but that’s reality for the mambabatchoy.
The night they covered that segment, there was a dare. They prepared a plateful of leftovers and asked Jay Taruc to eat with them. Jay Taruc tastes the food that they called “bachoy”.
Jay Taruc also did a bit of role-playing during the production of Basurero. He played the part of the scavenger and He spent two hours in the dumpsite looking for plastic bottles and cans. He earned P7 for a basketful of trash.
These are the life of mambabachoy and basurero. It is not easy for them to find food for their hunger. They need to suffer a lot to get some food. The mambabachoy needs to wait for the leftover foods of the customers in the fast foods or in the restaurants.
The basurero life is also difficult. They need to tiisin the bad smell of the garbage to get plastic bottles, cans and other things that can be sell. If the tracks of garbage are coming the basureros are waiting. You need to be alert so that you can get more than the others.



COMMENT
How difficult being a basurero and mambabachoy was. You need to suffer a lot to have food a day.
I think these kinds of situations are difficult to stop because some Filipinos are living because of what they get from the garbage’s. And for the mambabachoy, they survive because of the leftover foods.