No roads. No electricity. No hospital. No jobs. Not even a cell phone signal. This is Purok Canumay in Baranggay San Jose, Antipolo, a place unbelievably wanting in urbanity even if it’s just a mere 25 kilometers away from Metro Manila.

The roads here are rugged and muddy. There are no hospitals within the area so the sick have to be carried to the hospital all the way to the other side of town on a makeshift cradle.

Their school only has three classrooms, mixing up students belonging to different grade levels in just one classroom. The jobless residents, desperate to earn cash, are forced to cut down the trees in the forest and sell them.

When President Noynoy Aquino lays out all his plans for the country in his State of the Nation Address on Monday (July 26), the people of Canumay won’t be able to watch him. But they do hope that Noynoy’s promise of a road to change will pass by their poor community.

Join ABS-CBN TV reporter Jeff Canoy as he exposes all the problems of this undeveloped town in his first stint in “The Correspondents,” this Tuesday (July 27) right after “Bandila” on ABS-CBN.