How does your community and your local government respond to these various forms
of violence?
We get really angry. We’d go to the Barangay Office to fix it. We report to the
authorities such as the police or the barangay captain, or to the DSWD. We impose curfew
hours. We make rounds in patrolling our area. We also strive to understand and befriend the
person who has violent tendencies, and extend help as much as we can.
Were there forms of violence that happened during the lockdown. What were these?
No, there weren’t as far as our barangay Calintaan is concerned, except the
incidence we heard about which happened in Kalayuan.
VI.
GENERAL IMPACT OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC
How are you, as fisherfolks affected by the pandemic?
Fifteen (15) answered they are very much affected by the pandemic. The main reason
their being unable to sell their catch. Consequently, some have resorted to converting their
catch into dried fish for their family’s consumption, or hopefully, for potential buyers. Others
have resorted to borrow goods from the stores on credit. One of the respondents said her
family is not much affected because they are only few in the family.
Is your work at home lighter or heavier during this pandemic?
One (1) said, it is lighter because her child helps her with the work in the house.
Another one said it isn’t heavy her son and daughter helps her too. Two (2) answered it is just
the same. And majority of the eleven (11) women said the work is heavier than before the
pandemic. What makes it heavier now, according to Respondents N, K, D, and two others,
is the stress caused by having to help the children with their modules, and budgeting the
money that is so much lesser than before.
Have you experienced harassment or any form of violation of your human rights during
the lockdown, ECQ? Do you know a woman or women fisherfolk affected by this?
No one did. However, someone said she is not at peace in the times she had to leave
the house, to fish, leaving her children on their own at the house.
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