Living alongside the higher class and wealthy scions of the country, they find themselves abused and locked out. Most of them are treated as animals, forced to work so their rich employers can hoard more wealth. In the end, they're shunned as if they had the plague running through their veins. Equipped with poor education, they can only occupy the smallest and the simplest of jobs. In turn, their work turns out the smallest and simplest of salaries. These meager finances are the very ones that attempt to support a family of 5-6 children in a place where resources and human necessities are unbelievably expensive.

What makes things worse is that many of these people are left in darkness because of their suffering and poverty. The radicals tend to harbor hatred towards those who dwell in society’s middle class and beyond. They think that their suffering was brought about by the rich and powerful. For them, their poverty is the direct fault of the wealthy and affluent. While the abusive greed of some rich men do contribute to the depression in their lives, this hatred is usually grounded on nothing. On the contrary, some wealthy families even go out of their way in an attempt to help the urban poor through donations, fundraising, and social activities.

Nobody can really be blamed for all this suffering and poverty. There is no person or institution that can be held responsible for all this hardship. Sometimes, the squatters themselves are too lazy to earn a living, too proud to accept their status in life, and too blinded in their attempts to be city dwellers. They foregt the fact that their true place is in the countryside provinces. There are other also times when those in power abuse their strength to capitalize on the weakness of these squatters. The need for work forces them to shoulder the lashes of abusive employers so they can put food on the table and clothes on their backs. When these people voice out their needs and complaints, their cries just land on deaf ears.

There is no wonder solution for this problem. What can be commonly drawn though, before anything, is an understanding – an understanding of the situation and an understanding of these people. This entails, above all, an ear that listens and a heart that cares.

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