Gaano kalaki ang donations na natanggap ng government under different administrations na hindi nagamit at napunta sa intended beneficiaries even after years have passed? 

Ayun sa reports ng COA, hindi nagamit ng Office of Civil Defense ang P40.98 million worth ng donation for victims of Yolanda. This was in 2018. Yolanda happened in 2013. 

In the same year, in what have been one of the most troubling things it has ever discovered, COA also found out that out of the P36.92 million the OCD got for donations for the victims of the Marawi siege, it only utilized P10,000.

Ten pakening thousand pesos. Mas malaki pa yung perang ginastos ng iba sa Shopee. 

"Kaya hindi mo masasabing walang pera ang bansa," Seulgi said. 

"Kasi meron, akala mo lang wala, wala, wala." 

Napangiti at napangiwi si Irene. "Ginaya mo pa talaga si Carlo Aquino," sabi nito while they're talking on Zoom. 

"Lodi ko yun e. Pogi kaya, galing pa," kindat ni Seulgi.

Napatawa ulit si Irene. "Naks naman, after 10 years marunong ka na rin kumindat." 

"Pero it really is disheartening, Irene," ika ni Seulgi in a serious tone. 

"Alam mo bakit ko pinili mag-track ng DRRM funds, more than anything?" 

"Bakit?" tanong ni Irene. 

"Kasi sa panahong nasalanta na ang mga tao, nawalan ng pamilya at kabuhayan, may mga tao pa rin talaga na nagagawang i-delay at i-misuse pa nga ang pera at tulong na para sa kanila."

"Walang-wala na nga yung tao, aagrabyaduhin mo pa, nanakawan mo pa?"

"It's like killing them twice."