(FILE) Isko Moreno’s marketing campaign rally in Tacloban Metropolis.
MANILA, Philippines — Mayor Isko Moreno Domagoso and the remainder of the Aksyon Demokratiko slate will maintain their miting de avance at 4:00 p.m. Saturday on the Moriones Linear Park in Tondo in what shall be each a present of gratitude and a celebration of life, hope and braveness.
Moreno has mentioned earlier that the selection of venue his method of exhibiting gratitude to neighbors, pals and residents within the space the place he began his journey as a public servant.
“Utang ng loob ko sa mga taga-Tondo kung nasaan man ako sa mundo ng public service. Doon ako nagsimula, doon ko tatapusin yung laban. I began there (as a councilor) and I’ll finish (my presidential marketing campaign) there,” he instructed reporters Wednesday in Mambaling, Cebu Metropolis.
However the selection of venue for the miting de avance additionally holds a deeper which means, for additionally it is a celebration of Moreno life journey, of hope for a greater future, and of braveness to beat life’s adversities.
Moreno began life as a poor boy born within the slums of Tondo, Manila from his stevedore father Joaquin Domagoso, who got here from Vintage province and a labandera mom, Rosario Moreno, who got here from Maasin city in Leyte province.
At age 10, he discovered various sources of revenue to assist his household by scavenging for outdated newspapers and used bottles, and afterward drove a pedicab and rummaged by way of restaurant rubbish bins for “pagpag” (leftover meals), which his mom would recook for dinner.
He skilled the discrimination and the inequalities bestowed upon the poor, however by way of all this deprivation, Moreno mentioned he didn’t as soon as lose his religion in God.
“Sa kalagitnaan ng paghihikahos, nang matinding gutom, na malakas pa ang hilab ng iyong tiyan kesa sa aking dasal, ni minsan hindi ako nagtampo sa Diyos, hindi ko sya minura , hindi ko sya tinalikuran, at ang kanyang mga alagad hindi ko inalipusta, sapagkat di natitinag ang paniniwala ko sa Poong Maykapal na susuklian ang iyong pagsisikap ng mga biyayang ninanais mo,” he mentioned.
And as destiny would have it, Moreno turned an actor, the youngest metropolis councilor in 1998, the youngest vice mayor in 2007 and youngest Manila mayor in 2019.
Whereas in public workplace, he pursued greater research, incomes a level in Enterprise Administration diploma on the Worldwide Academy of Administration and Economics (IAME); two years of legislation college on the Arellano College; Grasp diploma in Public Administration on the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila (PLM), and Native Laws and Native Finance on the College of the Philippines (UP). Moreno additionally has post-graduate research on the Harvard College underneath Government Training Program, Strategic management program on the Oxford College,
That is the message that he all the time strives to drive wherever the marketing campaign takes him, that any particular person can go to nice lengths in life for so long as they by no means lose hope, work arduous and think about God.
“Nangyari sa akin, pwede na rin mangyari sa anak ninyo. Kahit anak ng mahirap, basta nagsikap at nagpursige ang magulang, yung bata nagsikap, might mararating sa buhay, Habang might buhay, might pag-asa. Kaya huwag kakyong susuko sa buhay” Moreno mentioned.
And additionally it is this imaginative and prescient that drove Moreno to hunt the presidency, to provide the extraordinary folks like him the equal alternative to raised their lives and their kids underneath a good and trustworthy authorities.
“Hindi matayog na ambisyon ang nagtulak sa aking desisyon, ngunit ng dahil sa kalunoslunos na kundisyon ng ating bayan,” he mentioned.
If elected president, Moreno has vowed to pursue a “Life and Livelihood” financial coverage that goals to deal with poverty, starvation, unemployment, inequality and social injustice by way of the efficient, environment friendly and prudent administration of presidency sources underneath an open, clear and inclusive administration, as spelled out underneath his 10-point Bilis Kilos Financial Agenda.
To attain this, Moreno’s administration will deal with constructing extra public housing like Tondominium and Binondominium; extra public colleges like the brand new Manila Science Excessive Faculty; and extra public hospitals just like the Bagong Ospital ng Maynila. These infrastructure initiatives will in flip create extra jobs and alternatives for Filipinos.
Moreover offering the minimal primary wants of the folks, Moreno additionally vowed an accelerated infrastructure program that shall be targeted in areas or provinces with low human improvement index to carry a few extra inclusive financial progress.
“Sa awa ng Diyos, sa tulong ninyo, simpleng gobyerno lang ang ibibigay ko. Ang gagawin ko lang murang bilihin, murang koryente, murang krudo, trabaho, pabahay, eskwelahan, ospital, tapos na ang usapan. Tao lang, sa tao lang, sa tao lamang,” he mentioned.
“Mararamdaman ninyo, na araw-araw, pag mararanasan ninyo na kayo’y matutumba na, makakakita kayo ng pader na ang tawag ay gobyerno na masasandalan ninyo sa oras na kailangan ninyo. Yan ang gobyernong ibibigay ko sa inyo,” Moreno mentioned.
And this imaginative and prescient and aspiration for a greater future for each Filipino all began within the slums of Tondo, the place a younger destitute boy dreamed of rising up from poverty, labored arduous to attain it, and is now dreaming much more to alter the lives of the lots who’ve began life like him.
Life, hope, braveness, and absolute religion in God. That is Mayor Isko’s miting de avance.
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