Aired (September 30, 2024): Si "Belle," lumaki sa pangangalaga ng isang temporary shelter habang ang kanyang ina ay nakakulong sa Correctional Institution for Women (CIW). Bagama’t abala siya sa mga gawain sa shelter, hindi pa rin nawawala sa kanyang isipan ang matinding hangarin na makasama muli ang kanyang ina. Makasama pa kaya ni Belle ang kanyang ina? Panoorin ang video.
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Hosted by veteran and premier documentarist Kara David, ‘Kara Docs’ gives faces to significant statistics on social issues. It amplifies the subjects’ voices as Kara David immerses herself in their lives.
Watch 'Kara Docs' every Monday, 5:00PM on GMA Public Affairs YouTube Channel. Subscribe to youtube.com/gmapublicaffairs for our full episodes. #KaraDocs
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00:00This baby was born just 7 days ago.
00:05Helen and her mother buried him under a tarima inside a cell.
00:14Good morning!
00:16The documentary, Celda Inocente, is one of the first documentaries that I wrote
00:22about the mothers who gave birth to a baby inside a cell
00:28about the babies whose first home was an orphanage.
00:34Danica! Danica!
00:37It's so heavy!
00:39Danica was a child inside a cell who learned to crawl and speak.
00:44Both of her parents were imprisoned.
00:49I made that documentary in 2002.
00:5420 years later, did anything change in our Celda?
01:08Like Danica, Bell's mother was also imprisoned.
01:11She didn't have a real name.
01:13But unlike Danica, who grew up inside a prison,
01:17Bell was separated from her parents.
01:20Her mother had a case and she was living in Baggio at the time.
01:27But her case was in Subic, so she was a single parent.
01:34So once she was arrested, the children were abandoned in Baggio.
01:41So the Baggio social services contacted us and we were able to get...
01:49And her brother.
01:50And her brother from the social services in Baggio.
01:55And the mother started to attend regularly our Bible studies in Subic
02:01until she was transferred to Manila.
02:04Bell was only 5 years old when she was brought to this shelter.
02:10She was brought here after her mother, who we will hide under the name Joanne, was imprisoned.
02:16How many years have you been here in the POC?
02:19Five.
02:20Five years. Do you still remember the day you were brought here?
02:27After my birthday, I was brought here.
02:31It was painful because...
02:34It was painful because...
02:44That's why I'm afraid that my mother will disappear.
02:47Because?
02:48Because my children, my grandmother, my mother, and my brother are taking care of me.
02:59But did you want to live here before?
03:02You didn't want to because...
03:04We couldn't be with my mother anymore.
03:07We only saw her sometimes.
03:09That's why at first, I really didn't want to be here.
03:16Bell's mother is a single mother.
03:18But because the children are no longer allowed inside the prison,
03:21the children were forced to be held in a shelter.
03:25My mother told me that my mother is already old,
03:29so this is the safest place for me.
03:34Don't you have other relatives?
03:37That's what my mother said.
03:39She said that we don't have other relatives who can take care of me.
03:46The POCCH, or Philippine Outreach Center Children's Home,
03:50is an accredited NGO of the DSWD.
03:54They take care of children who have been abandoned or who have been separated from their parents.
04:00Bell has been in this shelter for six years.
04:05She has been six years away from her mother in prison in Piitan.
04:11Bell's life in the shelter is good.
04:13She has a free house, food, clothes, and education.
04:18But she is complete in all her needs.
04:21Her mother's embrace is irreplaceable.
04:27How is your life here in the POC?
04:30It's okay.
04:33Is it happy or sad?
04:36It's happy and sad.
04:38It's happy and sad.
04:39Why is it happy?
04:41Because I got to know the Lord here.
04:44I got to know the Lord.
04:49And I'm sad because I'm not with my children.
04:54What is your wish? What do you want to happen?
04:58I want to see him again.
05:02Every day.
05:15Every day.
05:17Every day.