Mel packs to return home from Manila

Mel is      a  young Filipino man  from a very  poor provincial family     who  has, in recent    years, been attempting to make it in the big city.

While surviving, during the  final examination period, on one meal a day, Mel   succeeded in completing the first year of a computer course at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP).

Funds were insufficient for him to continue at the university, however.

With some assistance Mel undertook, successfully, a coffee-making (barista) course.

Casual employment followed, with Starbucks, Jollibee (the Filipino equivalent of McDonald’s) and then, until now, a McDonald’s fast-food restaurant in Asia’s largest megamall: the Mall of Asia.

Now Mel’s employment with McDonald’s is coming to an end. He had decided to return home to be with his mother and close relatives.

At 12:49 a.m. today Mel used his rooming house mate’s laptop,  to send me a message via Facebook.

Oh Bern, I’m going home tomorrow in the morning.

We can chat when I’m in Magdapio; there's a computer shop there for sure.

I don't wanna waste time and days here in Manila: when I’m in Magdapio I will find [an] internet cafe so we can chat and chat.

I’m sorry we didn't make it to have a chat. When I’m in Magdapio I’ll promise we can chat.

I miss you Bern and thank you for being there always; I love you and goodbye for now, I will need to prepare my stuff for a trip back to Magdapio.

Bye bye

Love

A boy in Magdapio with a carabao: Image by 333junction via Flickr

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Mother and nephew feverish

Tina, the main breadwinner and mainstay of a poor extended family in Kalayaan, Laguna, Philippines, and her young nephew Ken-Ken are ill but without antibiotics already prescribed, and unable to afford them.

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• At 09:57   GMT+08,   from     the Yahoo    Messenger       computer program, I sent a text message to Tina’s cellphone.
• Tina replied: she was still sick with tonsillitis.
• Eight-year-old Ken-Ken was also ill with wounds and a fever.
• They needed 1,800 pesos to buy antibiotics  but  could  not  afford them.

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Bern:

Hi Tina, good morning. I've just re-installed Yahoo Messenger. This is just a test message to see if I can text you. I'm hoping it will work. Bern.

Tina:

Good a.m. Bern, I’m glad that I received the text from your  Yahoo.

Please help me; I have fever because of tonsillitis.

I need to buy antibiotics costing 1,200 [but] I cannot afford to buy [them].

Also antibiotic for Ken’s wounds; it was inflammation and infected; he have fever too.

Bern:

Tina, I'm glad you received the text but I'm [financially and emotionally] exhausted… To make matters worse, Ross has just mis-called me [from Manila, needing help ASAP ].

I'm appalled to hear not only that you're still sick but also that Ken has wounds. I wonder how he got them and wonder if the fever is a result.

I promised to ring Ross [a Manila householder facing possible eviction] so I should do it now.

Also I promised to help a friend do  some work, starting about now. But I'll stay in touch.

An hour later Tina texted again: “I hope you received my text: Ken’s antibiotic costs 600.”

Regrettably there was nothing more to be done. I was without sufficient funds to help until Wednesday.

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30 Filipino drivers in Saudi accuse firm of overcharging fees

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A   brief    report    from       Dennis  Carcamo   of  the    Philstar   news service       indicates that Filipinos driving buses in    Saudi Arabia  are financially exploited.

John Monterona, representing the Filipino Imigrant workers' advocacy group Migrante,   disclosed      that   thirty  Filipino bus    drivers  had decried the alleged illegal charging of  fees by   the company  that recruited them and by its tie-up firms in Manila.

The workers were among the  300  bus drivers of the Saudi Public  Transport company based in the city of Dammam. 

"They claimed that their recruiter agency charged them [a] huge placement fee that led them to get an onerous loan from various lending agencies,” Mr Monterona said in a statement. 

The 30 drivers, recruited by PERT-CPM Manpower Exponents Co. Inc, had been on the job nearly four months.

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Christmas Eve food delivery for volcano evacuees

High-energy biscuits for flood-affected Filipinos being unloaded from a WFP helicopter last October.

Nearly 50,000 Filipinos evacuated from their homes in the shadow of the Mount Mayon volcano received some welcome assistance from the United Nations World Food Programme on Thursday, when packages of high energy biscuits arrived in evacuation centres set up by the government.

Misery and illness persist in Philippine typhoons’ wake

Excerpt from a report by Carlos H. Conde, The New York Times, October 25, 2009

 

“MANILA — A month after parts of the Philippines were devastated by successive typhoons, tens of thousands of people remain homeless and more than 150 have been killed by waterborne diseases, officials said.

Typhoon victims inside a baseball stadium turned into a temporary evacuation center in Pasig's Rosario district, east of Manila. Dennis M. Sabangan/European Pressphoto Agency

 

 

Relief workers are particularly concerned about children in evacuation camps in towns and cities in the Manila metropolitan area that remain flooded.

 

Health officials said there was an outbreak of diseases in both evacuation centers and in flooded communities, particularly a bacterial infection called leptospirosis that had afflicted more than 2,000 residents and killed 157 as of Saturday.”

 

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Family lacks food; jobless father desperate

Today, at 11:10 a.m., Philippine time, Jason, an unemployed father of two daughters, sent me a text message from San Isidro, Laguna, in the South of Luzon Island, saying last night he could not sleep; he had a very painful boil "and there is also no food; I don't know what to do now."

I was very sorry to hear that and really wished I knew what to do.

Evidently the family has been barely surviving for months. Jason had previously confided that over the last half-year he has sometimes gone without eating himself for two or three days.

I had no remedy or comfort to offer. My repeated efforts to help the family have been leading me into financial difficulties.

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Mother takes daughter to hospital; funds unavailable

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Text messages, 10:00 a.m. to 10:13 a.m, GMT + 08

From 10 a.m. onwards, from Kalayaan in the Philippines, Tina sent several text messages requesting help.

She was preparing to go to the Laguna Provincial Hospital in the town of Santa Cruz with her 4-year-old daughter Bernadeth - Joe ("Little Bern") who had a high fever, wounds on the head and face and white fluid exuding from the right ear.

I was really sorry, I replied. "I'm financially and emotionally exhausted."

Tina replied that she understood, but needed to give first aid to Little Bern. Last night the child had hardly slept because of an itch and around 1 a.m. she had become feverish.

The situation was more difficult because Bernadeth's kindergarten had selected her to appear on a float in a parade next Friday celebrating Nutrition Month, together with her cousin Zedric. The float would need to be decorated and the children dressed in traditional Filipino clothes; but money for this was also lacking.

Furthermore, the Philippine Training Authority (TESDA) had requested Tina to have her roadside diner prepared to receive an additional 50 customers for morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea today, so at 3 a.m. she had traveled to a market to purchase provisions.

Now she had been notified that the extra trainees would not arrive until tomorrow.

A hospital doctor will almost certainly order pathology tests for Little Bern, for which there is no money available, and if that is achieved he or she will write prescriptions for an antibiotic and other medications, for which, again, money is unavailable.

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Politicians cause of poverty, hunger and insurgency

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by Nomadicasian, November 22, 2007

This strong accusation by a nomadic Asian is worth republication and reconsideration.

Yes indeed, Filipino politicians and those who are in government service are the cause of poverty, hunger and insurgency in the Philippines.

Majority of these politicians belongs to the prominent families of the Philippines who ruled the country since after independence from the American colonizer. The neo-politicos who gained prominence after the EDSA Revolution of 1986 are likewise to blame for the unrelenting debacle of the poor Philippines.

The seats of power are divided and passed onto their relatives, to their next of kin, father, mother, brother, sister etc and the cycle continues.

These people practically owned almost the entire Philippines. And holy cow, these politicos are educated in the world renown Universities in America and Europe. They have their Master of Arts and doctoral degrees prominently displayed in their personal information. They send their relatives one after the other to the same schools abroad and return to the Philippines to run for public office only to amass wealth as a reward for a stint abroad as students.

They are well educated alright, but once they’re in power, they accumulate wealth in so short a time, almost triple the money that they spent as students abroad.

They have no regards to the poor masses; all they have in mind is their personal interests on how to remain rich at the expense of the uneducated and poor people of the Philippines.

Also, the men in government who are appointed to run the day to day affairs of the country contribute to the problems by using their positions to manipulate, rigged, influence every contract at their own disposal in exchanged for FAT COMMISSIONS.

They are not taking chances; every available transaction is considered easy money and must go to their pockets by hook or by crook. Both politicos and the men in government have their mansions, flashy cars, acres of lands and buildings around the country.

Their sons and daughters are in private, air conditioned and stately schools and blessed with luxuries.

The poor masses lives in small shacks, in squatters, [with] no lands of their own and work as scavengers, tradesmen, mendicants. Their sons and daughters are poorly educated, roaming around town, clawed by pedophiles and sex predators and oftentimes die in hunger. Others resort to criminality and in the rural areas join rebel movements.

This is SAD - REALLY SAD. How I wish that someday the Philippines will be great again, again because once upon a time the Philippines was second to Japan but now the country is a step ahead of Timbuktu, whatever that means.

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Son fears for absent father's welfare

Philippine Army seeks guerrillas around father's home town

At 09:54am this morning, Philippine time, Jason contacted me from an internet cafe in San Isidro, Laguna using the Yahoo Messenger program.

He was sad and worried, having received text messages yesterday from Susan, a woman friend of his father Melchior.

Susan said for the past week Melchior had been absent from his home in the hilltop village of San Antonio, Laguna, and staying in the town of Majayjay, Laguna.'Last night', Jason said, 'I can't sleep thinking about my father: what happened there?'

I wondered why Melchior went to Majayjay. 'That's my problem Bern' Jason said: 'why he went... I ask Susan why but she can't answer; that's why I'm thinking and worried.'

Jason had no idea about his father's situation. 'I don't know what he['s] doing there; I ask Susan if my father have work there; say nothing...'

He wanted to accompany Susan to Majayjay this morning. 'She know where he is. That's why I want to go in San Antonio now; to [be] clear about my father['s] situation and why he went there but... '

Jason was worried because he suspected Susan had many friends in the communist New People's Army.

There were many NPA guerrillas around San Antonio, and many Philippine Army troops trying to find them: 'And my father every day is in the mountain' [as part of his charcoal-making and rice growing activities].

I did not see that Jason's father had done anything that should cause him to be afraid of the NPA or the army but Jason repeated: 'I'm very worried Bern; that's why I want to go with Susan in Majayjay now.'

Majayjay was far from San Isidro. Jason had a motorcycle, 'but I don't have money for transportation, or for the gasoline; I need 500 PHP [to go] with Susan; I think it is enough to go there to see my father.'

I was sad about that but my own life had become quite difficult and I lacked the financial resources to help.

'Also: last night Tina wanted money to take two children to the Laguna Provincial Hospital but I couldn't help.

'Michael planned to take Mel to the Philippine General Hospital Out-Patients Department this morning. I fear they'll need money for pathology tests and prescriptions but that's a big problem for me too.'

Jason was downcast and repeatedly apologetic: 'I know your situation Bern... sorry for sharing this to you ... I try what I can do now; I'm sad and worried about my father; I want to see him... don't think about what I'm sharing.'

Jason's hour online was running out. I hoped his father had family cellphone numbers in his possession, and someone kind enough to allow him a text; and that Jason still had some cellphone credit. 'Texts to me via Yahoo are OK', I said. They would be much cheaper than SMS messages to my cellphone.

An hour and 20 minutes later, Jason sent me a text: 'Bern, I'm not yet go to Majayjay, can't borrow money for d transport, or for gasoline. All my [friends and relations] are "don't have." I'm sad.'

I was sorry to hear that. 'I'll think about the problem', I replied, 'but money is a big problem [for me too] now. I suppose Susan is also short of money.'

'I don't know what to do now Bern...' Jason said. I want to see my father but I can't do nothing.'

'Maybe you're worrying too much', I responded. 'There's an old saying, though: "No news is good news." I trust something will turn up.'

Sick toddler needs heart examined; funds unavailable

Between 06:46 and 06:57 (GMT+8) this morning, Tina sent text messages to my mobile phone and home computer. She was worried, having previously sent texts which I had not received.

The condition of Tina's asthmatic nephew Kian, 18 months old, had improved as a result of his receiving oxygen treatment during his two-day stay in the private Malaya Doctors Hospital in Santa Cruz, Laguna. He had been referred from the local government hospital because it lacked a heart specialist.

The cardiologist had wanted the boy to remain in hospital and undergo an echocardiographic examination "to find the diagnosis." The family could no longer afford to keep him there, however, so [with funds from me] they had paid the hospital bill of 4,500 pesos and taken him home.

The study would have cost an additional 2,500 pesos.

I replied requesting clarification.

I also expressed my distress that there was still no diagnosis and alarm at the prospect of immediate further expense which I also could not afford.

"Many times I've begged Filipinos to register with [the charitable websites] betterplace.org and kiva.org but that has not happened", I said.

There was no response from Tina. Probably she was extremely busy helping to prepare breakfast for the extended family and perhaps customers, and preparing to leave for the food technology training course she was required to attend.

Almost half an hour later I said "Tina, I would appreciate a response if you're not too busy and have enough credit load"; but I did not hear from her again.

It remains to be seen how Kian will fare at home without oxygen equipment to remedy his breathing difficulties and without a final diagnosis.

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Dog-bite victim receives another anti-rabies injection

Lin-Lin's health and appetite improve but costs remain a severe problem

SMS texting session via Yahoo Messenger from 13:52 to 14:34, Philippine time

At 13:52 today, Philippine time, Jason texted me that his daughter Lin-Lin had received an [anti-rabies] injection at the Laguna Provincial Hospital and was scheduled to receive another two, the next at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, May 13.

He was very concerned about the cost: 1,700 pesos for each injection.

"News about the cost alarms me greatly," I responded. "I prefer not to think about it now."

I hoped Lin-Lin wasn't too upset by the injection and was OK.

"She's OK now, Bern, happy and energetic", Jason replied; "she [has] improved now but she needs 2 more injections."

I'm here now in Jollibee," he added, "but [after] every inject[ion] she [is] requesting me to eat [at] Jollibee."

The dialogue continued:

Bern: I'm very glad to hear Lin-Lin has improved. I understand that she needs more injections. I hope you've improved [in health] too.

Jason: I'm OK, Bern, happy; specially Lin-Lin, she eat Jollibee. Thank you; you're always there for me, to support [us]. Thank you very much Bern.

Bern: I'm very glad of that [happiness] Jason. I'm aware of added expenses on Wednesday but don't want to think about it too much right now.

Jason: Thank you Bern. God bless. Love, Jason and family.

Catcher in the rye

In Chapter 22 of J D Salinger's celebrated (1951) novel The Catcher in the Rye, Phoebe Caulfield asks her sixteen-year-old brother Holden what he wants to   do with  his life. Holden responds with this image:

“Anyway, I keep picturing  all  these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all.

Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. ”

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Family cannot afford medical consultation and treatment for small injured son

Email from Tina sent on December 07 at 17:04 GMT+8

Dear Bern,

This is the x-ray plate of Kert; the doctor [is] waiting to return us on Dec. 18, to discharge the cement, at 9 a.m.

I’m worried coz I’m sure doctor required us to have x-ray again to check if the bone back to normal. X-ray cost 980.

Bern, sad to say, Roderic['s] work will be till this week, he just have work as casual for only 1 month, [this] means to say the responsibilities [come] back to me again. Bern, pls, help us again when the day came need Kert return to doctor again on Dec.18.

I pray the bone return to normal again.

Tina

Impoverished young man Mel helps comrade campaign for election

Life goes on despite hunger

Mel (18:27:37): Gud p.m., Bern, it's me, Mel. I'm with Jomar now. I'm with him campaigning in their barangay. Hope you're OK. I'm worried bcoz you're not texting. Love, Mel.
 

Bern (18:29:06): Hi Mel, I'm so glad you replied. I've been worried about you. May I ask: who is the candidate for whom you are campaigning?
 

Mel (18:30:16): Jomar Yaneza for councilor!

Bern (18:32:57): Oh, so Jomar is a candidate! My best wishes to him! Unfortunately I can't vote for him also!

Mel (18:35:07): He said thank you so much, yes, me too, I can't vote for him bcoz we're different barangay: he's from Barangay Uno, San Isidro, and I'm from Magdapio.

Bern (18:37:16): So Jomar lives across the river, somewhere near the cemetery, I think! I wonder how you cross the river to see him - by boat, or via the hanging bridge?

Mel (18:38:47): Of corz by hanging bridge! And I'm just walking to get here in his place.

Bern (18:40:01): No doubt it's cheaper that way. But it's several kilometres to walk! At least the exercise will keep you fit, if you're well enough for it.

Mel (18:42:41): Yes, I don't have to use tricycle, eh! . . .

Newborn infant screened for possible abnormalities

Part 1 of e-mail sent by Tina at 19:42

Dear Bern and Alice,

This is the photo of baby Kian R . . . , while doing the newborn screening in hospital, he was crying while doing it in two foot, also [his mother] Liza that time was crying too.

[Part 2 is shown below]

Storekeeper faces bankruptcy crisis despite heavy demand

E-mail sent by Tina at 19:42 GMT+10: Part 2

Bern this is the picture I send to Joe, last 1 1/2 month, while I'm starting the store, now that we're been in family crisis, is been bankrupt, and now I been stop for selling load, coz of loss of capital also selling rice which was in demand in my store. I want to continue selling Globe and Smart [cellphone credit loads]. In every 1,000 capital in Globe, and 1,000 capital in Smart I can earn profit of 120 each.

And also selling rice, 1,200 even for 1 sack only, I can sell it within 3 to 4 days only, you know Bern, I want to ask your help to return my capital for load and rice so even while I'm home I have an extra income to support for my family need.

I did not mention to Joe what happen to my store coz I don't want to lost his trust to me, I know he will [not] understand the reason why my store was going to bankrupt coz of my family problem, can you please help me to have a capital of 3,200, and extra allowance to buy nutritious food for the two mother Laurice and Liza, for the sake of two baby, next time I will sends the picture of son of Laurice.

Take care always Bern and Alice

Tina

Five children paddle in pool

As an unusual treat, five children from Tina's Kalayaan household were able to go paddling in the baby pool at the Samonte resort in Lumban, Laguna.

Tina e-mailed me some photographs from the occasion.

I'd never been to the resort, I said: "Maybe one day."

"I'm wondering [when] and wish, too, you will be here with us," Tina replied.

Tina desperate to keep hospital appointment

Bern (10:22:38 GMT+10): Tina, sadly I recommend you CANCEL trip to PGH [the Philippine General Hospital] [on] Wed[nesday]. You have insufficient money, travel and waiting is exhausting, and in my opinion [the] results are not worthwhile. [Yahoo Messenger: "Tina will receive your messages on a mobile device."]

Tina (13:13:14): Good a.m. Bern and Alice. I received your text this morning, sorry I don't have load to reply, I just try to go here in Bon Vincent [computer store] to check if you [are] still on line, here [using the Yahoo Instant Messenger program] there have no limit of word sending, not like in text in cellphone.

Tina (13:17:39): I hope you're OK, with Alice.



Tina (13:21:40): Bern, this is just my opinion and observation, I understand your situation, and I'm just rely[ing] on you in my financial [situation], specially in my medication and consultation in PGH [the Philippine General Hospital, Manila]. I want to tell you that there was 1,000 of patient in PGH and every department have hundred of patient every day, their record section is not like on your hospital computerize[d], here it [is] manual, if I cannot return on my schedule of appointment on March 7, there a possible my record was lost, like the other cases we observed there in record section.

Tina (13:23:35): The Dr. T. . . is the one who decide to return me in March 7, after 15 days of observation, coz he was doing a chart, and it will be so hard for me to have a[n] appointment again.

Tina (13:25:28): If I will not return on Wed[nesday], I need to go there personally and have another trip, just to file an appointment, and look for Dr. T [to see] if I have a chance to have a[n] appointment again.

Tina (13:28:45): Sorry to tell you, but Dr. T was expecting me to return there on Wed, coz he was so worried in my situation, in our last appointment he convince[d] his secretary to schedule me on the nearest schedule of him (March 7), coz of my situation he want me to have a check up after 2 weeks.

Tina (13:29:48): If you just see the patient[s] in PGH, it [has] almost 100 of patient schedule[d] in 1 room.

Tina (13:31:34): I understand the result of lab [tests] will not [be] OK, coz I don't have enough time to take my medicine coz of what happen in Mercury [pharmacy], I will just explain to Dr. T that I have only 3 days to have a medicine.

Tina (13:32:32): He also told me that on this trip, he will do so much study on my case problem.

Tina (13:33:54): I'm so sorry Bern, I know I'm the cost [cause] of your problem, I really want to be OK, i want to [be] cured, and start a better future, pls, help me.

Tina (13:34:02): By for now, I have to go.

Tina (13:34:25): Take care always, Tina.

Life of little girl saved

E-mail from Tina sent on 13 October 2006 at 16:40, GMT+8
Hello Bern and Alice,



1. This is the picture of Kaila when she was in the hospital with her mother Julie (a single mother, now working as a maid in Lucena).


2. The other picture of Kaila [shows her] standing in sand, near the boat, 1 day after she return in Burgos, Quezon.

3. The other one was the family of Ross, when we're been there [at his house in Manila], with Lito, Jovs, and little Bernadeth, when the time they [(Lito and Jovs) were] applying [for employment as security guards] in Tamaraw agency.

4. The picture of [Quezon Medical Center] hospital in Lucena city, where Kaila Mae [was] confined.

You know Bern, you save the life of the child, Kaila Mae, when she was in the hospital, that why don't regrets to the money you been send in the Philippines, coz you're like an angel to [this] family, specially to Kaila.

Thank you very much,

[Tina].

Roderic, father of Ken and Kert, injured in accident

E-mail from Tina received at 16:11, GMT+10

Hello Bern and Alice,

Look at the picture attach[ed]. Guess who? The elder one was Kevin Ken, "Kenken", the elder son of Liza and Roderic: your grandson, did you remember them?

The small one was Kert Clarence, "Kertkert", the 8 months old baby, the encovetor [incubator] one, without of your help he can not live like this; "they are your mga apo".

They give their love to you, they [came] back from Alabang last January 4, they now live in Kalayaan for good, just Roderic [their father] [is] back in Alabang for work, and [he comes] back weekly to check his family, but last Monday he been [in an] accident; I will send another email for more information.

I will send by mail the picture.

Love,

Tina.