Aku na Mã´the plausibility of participatory development as a framework for development in the City of San Fernando, Pampanga

Abstract

When we see news reports on CNN of a plane, crashing and killing all of its 120 or so passengers, our mouths gape open and then, shock and pity follow. We call it a tragedy. When there are '15,000 Africans who die each and every day because of preventable, treatable diseases like malaria, AIDs and tuberculosis for lack of medication that we take for granted.' (Sachs, 2005:xiv). It goes unnoticed, unreported and pretty much ignored. That is our tragedy. When we see news reports of a very promising young Hollywood starlet on CNN, unexpectedly dying from some very serious heroin overdose, our mouths gape open and then, shock and regret follow. We call it a tragedy. When there are '25,000 people around the world that die each and every day, because of hunger and other hunger-related causes' (Welch, 2008). It goes unnoticed, unreported and pretty much ignored. That is our tragedy.[Introduction]