Emails from the Desert…
Dr. Edgar A. Gamboa
Christmas 2008 came and went. The New Year has begun. Are you one of those who take stock of all the gifts you received from Santa Claus, thank those who kept you in mind during the season, then wonder what to do with all your stuff?
Despite the global economic downturn, we in these United States are still blessed with many material things. CostCo, Wal-Mart, Toys-R-Us, and the ubiquitous shopping malls that proliferate from Oahu to Manhattan, ensure that even a part-time worker can fill those stockings with enough goodies and line the Christmas tree with toys and gifts.
Which, indeed, is a blessing. Everyone loves Santa, no one likes Scrooge. But don’t you get the feeling that perhaps we, in this side of a lopsided globe, just have too many things we don’t really need?
I read about a family who arrived at this juncture – and did something about it.
Instead of sweaters or electronic gadgets or another set of something, these wise parents requested their grown up children to give them, for next Christmas, some charitable deed – an act of kindness – performed to benefit someone else. It could be something as simple as volunteering in a homeless shelter or soup kitchen, buying a stranger a sandwich and a cup of coffee, or teaching a child to read.
One act of kindness that made someone’s day brighter. That was all they asked for Christmas. And the idea caught on.
Their children (and their spouses) came up with all kinds of cool stuff for Christmas gifts -- helping out with Little League sports, collecting blankets for the homeless, donating books to the local library, teaching English to refugees, etc. Soon, their grandchildren came up with their own gifts of kindness – wrapping toys for orphans, collecting school supplies for needy children, distributing gifts to poor families.
The family tradition took root. It became more involved as, year after year, everyone in the family looked for a variety of ways to become a different kind of Santa. Someone delivered a Christmas tree to an “adopted” family and decorated it with gift certificates. The electric and water bill of a senior citizen was fully paid. Colorful backpacks with schools supplies were distributed to students in poor neighborhoods. Orphans across the world were fed and sheltered through monetary donations. Houses and schools in slum areas were gradually built.
The gift-giving rules are simple. The charitable deed has to be done within the year. It can be performed by spending money or giving of one’s time and energy. It can be simple or elaborate, done solo or in teamwork with others. It starts at New Year so that everyone in the family has twelve months to come up with something they could present as their special gift on Christmas Eve.
To keep track, they started taking photos, wrote about their “gifts”, and compiled them in the family scrapbook.. Every Christmas, the family celebrates the birth of the Savior knowing that they had all done something, big or small, to make someone else’s Christmas better.
This humble but remarkable family has captured the true spirit of Christmas. For did not Christ, the reason we celebrate Christmas, say: “Whatever you did for one of these, you did it for me.”?
Filipino-Americans would not find this kind of Christmas giving too unusual, having migrated from a third world where abundance is the exception, rather than the rule. But it is easy to get caught up in the individualistic and materialistic culture of Western society and, in effect, depart from the traditional value of the bayanihan spirit.
Thus, it would be worthwhile for us, Filipino-Americans, to get ourselves and our children more involved in projects that will benefit our kababayans, here in our adopted country and back home in the mother country.
Humanitarian projects, such as medical missions, the construction of schools and clinics, educational funds, and the building of homes (such as those successfully promoted by Gawad Kalinga) can be endeavors worth our time, commitment and effort.
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Saturday, January 10, 2009
Thursday, December 25, 2008
A lonely Christmas...
Reprinted from The Asian Journal, December 25,2008
Has your Christmas always been merry and bright? Gathering 'round the Christmas tree, unwrapping surprise gifts, partaking of the traditional vigil Mass and Media Noche -- very few things are as special and joyous as Christmas!
Yet, to others not as fortunate, the season may not be as joyous. In various parts of the world, violence and terror, rather than peace and goodwill, prevail. In other areas of the globe, children go to bed without receiving a single Christmas toy, without food in their bellies. As we gather warmly near fireplaces and in the company of friends, others huddle in cold sidewalks or under musty bridges, with homeless strangers.
Like most of you, reading this email, I have been blessed to have my family around to enjoy the commemoration of Christ's birth. I remember experiencing only one particularly lonely Christmas. It was the year, after graduating from medical school, when I interned at the Veterans Memorial Hospital in Quezon City. I had been on duty the days preceding Christmas eve and could not fly home to Cebu in time for the holidays.
At the time, I was staying at my sister's place in the city, near the Araneta Coliseum. My sister had left to join her in-laws outside of Manila a few days earlier, so I found myself all alone that Christmas Eve.
I walked towards the Coliseum mall to do some last minute shopping. Already, stores were closing though a few restaurants remained open. I remember going into one of the restaurants, to eat alone at a corner table, watching passersby hurrying home for Christmas dinner. I had all the time in the world and no one to spend it with.
If anything, that experience of a lonely Christmas, gave me an insight into how terrible it can be to be all alone during this merriest of seasons. It is not surprising that the ERs get packed and that many lonely folks get sick and die during the holidays.
A week or two ago, I received in the mail a "Christmas Gift Catalogue" from a charitable organization. A20$9 gift would feed a malnourished child for a week. A $15 donation would provide for school supplies or a month's tuition so a child can learn to read and write. $75 would provide for care, shelter, and rehabilitation for a child enslaved in a sweatshop or forced to serve as a child soldier. $100 would provide temporary shelter for victims of natural disasters. The variety of charitable projects was astounding.
You must have heard of Gawad Kalinga. The organization aims to build decent housing in numerous slum districts in the Philippines. The cost of building a "Benetton House" - so called because these colorful homes are painted according to availability of donated paint -- has increased to P85,000 but the project has been a resounding success. A CEO in the Philippines has reportedly pledged to donate a house a month until he dies. Naturally, many in the organization are praying that he live a long and productive life.
In addition to giving our friends and families the usual gifts this Christmas, perhaps we can find time to serve in a soup kitchen for the homeless. Or send a check to a charitable organization. How wonderful it would be to know that in our small way, we kept a homeless person from experiencing a lonely and hungry Christmas or gave a family the experience of celebrating Christmas in a place they could truly call home.
Yet, to others not as fortunate, the season may not be as joyous. In various parts of the world, violence and terror, rather than peace and goodwill, prevail. In other areas of the globe, children go to bed without receiving a single Christmas toy, without food in their bellies. As we gather warmly near fireplaces and in the company of friends, others huddle in cold sidewalks or under musty bridges, with homeless strangers.
Like most of you, reading this email, I have been blessed to have my family around to enjoy the commemoration of Christ's birth. I remember experiencing only one particularly lonely Christmas. It was the year, after graduating from medical school, when I interned at the Veterans Memorial Hospital in Quezon City. I had been on duty the days preceding Christmas eve and could not fly home to Cebu in time for the holidays.
At the time, I was staying at my sister's place in the city, near the Araneta Coliseum. My sister had left to join her in-laws outside of Manila a few days earlier, so I found myself all alone that Christmas Eve.
I walked towards the Coliseum mall to do some last minute shopping. Already, stores were closing though a few restaurants remained open. I remember going into one of the restaurants, to eat alone at a corner table, watching passersby hurrying home for Christmas dinner. I had all the time in the world and no one to spend it with.
If anything, that experience of a lonely Christmas, gave me an insight into how terrible it can be to be all alone during this merriest of seasons. It is not surprising that the ERs get packed and that many lonely folks get sick and die during the holidays.
A week or two ago, I received in the mail a "Christmas Gift Catalogue" from a charitable organization. A20$9 gift would feed a malnourished child for a week. A $15 donation would provide for school supplies or a month's tuition so a child can learn to read and write. $75 would provide for care, shelter, and rehabilitation for a child enslaved in a sweatshop or forced to serve as a child soldier. $100 would provide temporary shelter for victims of natural disasters. The variety of charitable projects was astounding.
You must have heard of Gawad Kalinga. The organization aims to build decent housing in numerous slum districts in the Philippines. The cost of building a "Benetton House" - so called because these colorful homes are painted according to availability of donated paint -- has increased to P85,000 but the project has been a resounding success. A CEO in the Philippines has reportedly pledged to donate a house a month until he dies. Naturally, many in the organization are praying that he live a long and productive life.
In addition to giving our friends and families the usual gifts this Christmas, perhaps we can find time to serve in a soup kitchen for the homeless. Or send a check to a charitable organization. How wonderful it would be to know that in our small way, we kept a homeless person from experiencing a lonely and hungry Christmas or gave a family the experience of celebrating Christmas in a place they could truly call home.
Friday, April 25, 2008
Heralds of Hope
Which of Pope Benedict XVI's messages during his 5-day Apostolic Visit impressed you? Unless you are a sympathizer of Colorado's 6th District Congressman and ex-presidential candidate Tom Tancredo, who blasted the Holy Father for his plea of compassion for illegal immigrants, I imagine you would have found that Benedict's messages (which he wrote himself, giving papal speechwriters reprieve) made sense and that Tancredo's opposition to American multiculturalism and his relentless fight to halt all immigration, whether legal or otherwise, do not.
It is a shame that Tancredo is a grandson of Italian immigrants. You would have expected him to be kinder and gentler to immigrants -- honest, hardworking folks, who, like his grandparents, come to America to seek a better life for themselves and for their children. It is a shame too that he was born and raised a Catholic (he is now an Evangelical Presbyterian) and had forgotten that passage in the Old Testament when Abraham welcomed strangers to his abode and asked his wife Sarah to feed them (they turned out to be angels).
I don't know what made Tancredo hate foreigners with a vengeance. Among other things, he founded the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus in 1999 to advance his agenda, relegating the chairmanship in 2007 to San Diego's Brian Bilbray. If you recall, Tancredo is the bright guy who last year advocated bombing Mecca and Medina in response to an Islamic terrorist attack, prompting a media outrage.
Perhaps, spending an evening to watch the movie "Under the Same Moon" (La Misma Luna) might give Tancredo, Bilbray, Hunter and the Washington hardliners on immigration a glimpse of the hidden people they are so worried about. Nine-year-old Carlitos in Tijuana and his mother Rosario in Los Angeles will open our eyes to the plight of the poor and the stranger hidden in our midst.
It was proper that Pope Benedict delivered his plea for "the poor, the homeless, the stranger, the sick and all who suffer" at St. Patrick's Cathedral, in the heart of multicultural New York City, the nation's first capital, America's premier melting pot and immigration gateway. 36% of New York's current 8.2 million residents are foreign-born (10% are Asian).
"Gathered as we are in this historic cathedral", Pope Benedict observed, "how can we not think of the countless men and women who have gone before us, who labored for the growth of the Church in the United States, and left us a lasting legacy of faith and good works?".
"Dear brothers and sisters, in the finest traditions of the Church in this country, may you also be the first friend of the poor, the homeless, the stranger, the sick and all who suffer. Act as beacons of hope, casting the light of Christ upon the world...."
Pope Benedict, the erudite theologian, revealed himself to be a poet at heart. Pointing to the stained glass windows of the gothic cathedral, he remarked: "From the outside, those windows are dark, heavy, even dreary. But once one enters the church, they suddenly come alive; reflecting the light passing through them, they reveal all their splendor. Many writers -- here in America we can think of Nathaniel Hawthorne -- have used the image of stained glass to illustrate the mystery of the Church herself. It is only from the inside, from the experience of faith and ecclesial life, that we see the Church as she truly is: flooded with grace, resplendent in beauty, adorned by the manifold gifts of the Spirit. It follows that we, who live the life of grace within the Church's communion, are called to draw all people into this mystery of light."
"This is no easy task", the Holy Father admitted, "in a world which can tend to look at the Church, like those stained glass windows, "from the outside": a world which deeply senses a need for spirituality, yet finds it difficult to "enter into" the mystery of the Church. Even for those of us within, the light of faith can be dimmed by routine, and the splendor of the Church obscured by the sins and weaknesses of her members. It can be dimmed too, by the obstacles encountered in a society which sometimes seems to have forgotten God and to resent even the most elementary demands of Christian morality....In a word, it is not always easy to see the light of the Spirit all about us, the splendor of the Risen Lord illuminating our lives and instilling renewed hope in his victory over the world."
"As heralds of hope...where God's grace has placed us", let us do our part to make Christ's message of love and compassion overcome the worldly rhetoric of hatred, "self-centeredness, greed, violence and cynicism (which) often seem to choke the fragile growth of grace in people's hearts".
It is a shame that Tancredo is a grandson of Italian immigrants. You would have expected him to be kinder and gentler to immigrants -- honest, hardworking folks, who, like his grandparents, come to America to seek a better life for themselves and for their children. It is a shame too that he was born and raised a Catholic (he is now an Evangelical Presbyterian) and had forgotten that passage in the Old Testament when Abraham welcomed strangers to his abode and asked his wife Sarah to feed them (they turned out to be angels).
I don't know what made Tancredo hate foreigners with a vengeance. Among other things, he founded the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus in 1999 to advance his agenda, relegating the chairmanship in 2007 to San Diego's Brian Bilbray. If you recall, Tancredo is the bright guy who last year advocated bombing Mecca and Medina in response to an Islamic terrorist attack, prompting a media outrage.
Perhaps, spending an evening to watch the movie "Under the Same Moon" (La Misma Luna) might give Tancredo, Bilbray, Hunter and the Washington hardliners on immigration a glimpse of the hidden people they are so worried about. Nine-year-old Carlitos in Tijuana and his mother Rosario in Los Angeles will open our eyes to the plight of the poor and the stranger hidden in our midst.
It was proper that Pope Benedict delivered his plea for "the poor, the homeless, the stranger, the sick and all who suffer" at St. Patrick's Cathedral, in the heart of multicultural New York City, the nation's first capital, America's premier melting pot and immigration gateway. 36% of New York's current 8.2 million residents are foreign-born (10% are Asian).
"Gathered as we are in this historic cathedral", Pope Benedict observed, "how can we not think of the countless men and women who have gone before us, who labored for the growth of the Church in the United States, and left us a lasting legacy of faith and good works?".
"Dear brothers and sisters, in the finest traditions of the Church in this country, may you also be the first friend of the poor, the homeless, the stranger, the sick and all who suffer. Act as beacons of hope, casting the light of Christ upon the world...."
Pope Benedict, the erudite theologian, revealed himself to be a poet at heart. Pointing to the stained glass windows of the gothic cathedral, he remarked: "From the outside, those windows are dark, heavy, even dreary. But once one enters the church, they suddenly come alive; reflecting the light passing through them, they reveal all their splendor. Many writers -- here in America we can think of Nathaniel Hawthorne -- have used the image of stained glass to illustrate the mystery of the Church herself. It is only from the inside, from the experience of faith and ecclesial life, that we see the Church as she truly is: flooded with grace, resplendent in beauty, adorned by the manifold gifts of the Spirit. It follows that we, who live the life of grace within the Church's communion, are called to draw all people into this mystery of light."
"This is no easy task", the Holy Father admitted, "in a world which can tend to look at the Church, like those stained glass windows, "from the outside": a world which deeply senses a need for spirituality, yet finds it difficult to "enter into" the mystery of the Church. Even for those of us within, the light of faith can be dimmed by routine, and the splendor of the Church obscured by the sins and weaknesses of her members. It can be dimmed too, by the obstacles encountered in a society which sometimes seems to have forgotten God and to resent even the most elementary demands of Christian morality....In a word, it is not always easy to see the light of the Spirit all about us, the splendor of the Risen Lord illuminating our lives and instilling renewed hope in his victory over the world."
"As heralds of hope...where God's grace has placed us", let us do our part to make Christ's message of love and compassion overcome the worldly rhetoric of hatred, "self-centeredness, greed, violence and cynicism (which) often seem to choke the fragile growth of grace in people's hearts".
Friday, November 23, 2007
Rural and Urban Poverty in the Philippines
Reprinted from the Asian Journal
(Second of two installments)
Last week, I jotted down statistics on current Philippine economy that stagger the mind. The richest 10% of the country earns twenty times more than the poorest 10%. Networth of the 40 richest Filipinos amount to $16 Billion U.S. currency, equivalent to the combined annual income of 9,600,000 families or 49 million Filipinos. Other stats claim that assets of the top 10 Filipinos alone ($12.4 billion) compare to the total earning capacity of 57% of the population!
Statistics can lie. They can be tweaked or fudged to make one side look better than the other. However, I see how these numbers translate into actual flesh and blood when we embark on medical missions to the Philippines. Whether we conduct our missions in outlying barrios or in city slums, the sheer volume åof malnourished children -- an unmistakable index of poverty -- is astonishing.
In the heart of the slum district of Baranggay Pasil, Cebu, early this year, we visited the orphanage run by the Missionaries of Charity (of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta). (see photos). We witnessed first-hand how the Sisters take care of toddlers who cannot stand, much less walk, because of advanced kwashiorkor. Some of the children looked like old men and women, with prominent eyeballs in sunken orbits -- like the ones you see photographed in famine areas such as Ethiopia and Darfur.
These children are not orphans. Their parents have not abandoned them. They simply do not have the resources to feed them. So the Missionary Sisters take them in and care for them for a year or so until they are healthy enough to return to their families.
Many Filipinos who live in the relatively affluent areas of Metro Manila, Cebu, Davao and other major cities do not readily see the extent of poverty afflicting the rural areas of the country. Residents in Cebu and Manila enjoy many luxurious amenities not easily found in major cities of the United States, Canada and Western Europe.
This fact may have been part of the impetus that compelled the CBCP (Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines) to issue an important Pastoral Statement on 28 January 2007. Drafted by the Archbishop of Jaro and CBCP President, Angel N. Lagdameo, D.D., the document is entitled “The Dignity of the Rural Poor -- A Gospel Concern”. It is a letter addressed to the “People of God in the Philippines” but may well be addressed to Filipinos residing outside of the Philippines as well.
The document, which I found displayed on the bulletin board at the Pontificio Collegio Filipino in Rome, states that “the overriding social concern of the Church of the Philippines has...centered on the inequitable distribution of the nation’s wealth and the endemic social injustices that underpin that evil.” The paper focuses attention “on the greatest victim of our unjust economic order, the rural poor, and the diminishment of their dignity as people and as citizens.”
The Pastoral Statement goes on to say that the poor are concentrated in the rural areas of the country. But while the ranks of the urban poor are also increasing, that situation is largely due to the migration of rural folks seeking job opportunities in the metropolitan areas.
Archbishop Lagdameo and the CBCP laud the government for instituting CARP (Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program) but lament that “its full implementation is still far off in the future -- if ever.” The government’s failure to carry out land reform is in no small measure due to “a landlord dominated Congress (which) watered down..its implementation.”
The “landed classes” which comprise the “traditional and economic elite of our country” lack the “vigor and determination” to implement the law. Simply put, “selfish class interests outweigh concern for the common good...”
The paper condemns “recent extrajudicial killings, perpetrated by groups from both the right and the left.” Farmers who struggle and fight for the implementation of land reform are considered a seditious threat to the economic elite and become targets of government sanctioned military campaigns. The same farmers also become targets of leftist brigands if unable to pay the “revolutionary tax” imposed on them by the NPA.
The bishops point out that condemnation of this structural evil in Philippine society is not enough. “We must,” they insist, “try bringing an end to evils that harm people and their good.”
The year 2007, the bishops remind us, is the 40th anniversary of the 1967 National Rural Congress. At that time, the Congress reached the “crucial conclusion that the Church must go to the barrios..(because) the rural part of the country were the most neglected by both the government’s development programs and the Chruch’s pastoral care.”
The Pastoral Statement concludes that “it is in not honoring the dignity of the least of our brothers and sisters among the poor that we contribute not a little to the injustices and inequalities that have become deeply ingrained in our national life.....”
Citing the Scriptural message from St. Matthew: “If you did it for one of my least brothers or sisters, you did it for me,” the bishops declare that “today, we see only too clearly the need for the reform not only of our national institutions but of our very moral fiber as a people.”
There are countless ways, big and small, that we can help alleviate poverty in the Philippines. The Missionaries of Charity orphanage needs food, medicine, clothing, cribs, shoes, etc. For those concerned and interested in helping the orphanage in Pasil, Cebu, you may send your contribution, in cash/check or goods, directly to:
Sr. Ruth, MC
Missionaries of Charity
Bgy. Suba Pasil
Cebu
Tel (032) 261-9097
(Second of two installments)
Last week, I jotted down statistics on current Philippine economy that stagger the mind. The richest 10% of the country earns twenty times more than the poorest 10%. Networth of the 40 richest Filipinos amount to $16 Billion U.S. currency, equivalent to the combined annual income of 9,600,000 families or 49 million Filipinos. Other stats claim that assets of the top 10 Filipinos alone ($12.4 billion) compare to the total earning capacity of 57% of the population!
Statistics can lie. They can be tweaked or fudged to make one side look better than the other. However, I see how these numbers translate into actual flesh and blood when we embark on medical missions to the Philippines. Whether we conduct our missions in outlying barrios or in city slums, the sheer volume åof malnourished children -- an unmistakable index of poverty -- is astonishing.
In the heart of the slum district of Baranggay Pasil, Cebu, early this year, we visited the orphanage run by the Missionaries of Charity (of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta). (see photos). We witnessed first-hand how the Sisters take care of toddlers who cannot stand, much less walk, because of advanced kwashiorkor. Some of the children looked like old men and women, with prominent eyeballs in sunken orbits -- like the ones you see photographed in famine areas such as Ethiopia and Darfur.
These children are not orphans. Their parents have not abandoned them. They simply do not have the resources to feed them. So the Missionary Sisters take them in and care for them for a year or so until they are healthy enough to return to their families.
Many Filipinos who live in the relatively affluent areas of Metro Manila, Cebu, Davao and other major cities do not readily see the extent of poverty afflicting the rural areas of the country. Residents in Cebu and Manila enjoy many luxurious amenities not easily found in major cities of the United States, Canada and Western Europe.
This fact may have been part of the impetus that compelled the CBCP (Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines) to issue an important Pastoral Statement on 28 January 2007. Drafted by the Archbishop of Jaro and CBCP President, Angel N. Lagdameo, D.D., the document is entitled “The Dignity of the Rural Poor -- A Gospel Concern”. It is a letter addressed to the “People of God in the Philippines” but may well be addressed to Filipinos residing outside of the Philippines as well.
The document, which I found displayed on the bulletin board at the Pontificio Collegio Filipino in Rome, states that “the overriding social concern of the Church of the Philippines has...centered on the inequitable distribution of the nation’s wealth and the endemic social injustices that underpin that evil.” The paper focuses attention “on the greatest victim of our unjust economic order, the rural poor, and the diminishment of their dignity as people and as citizens.”
The Pastoral Statement goes on to say that the poor are concentrated in the rural areas of the country. But while the ranks of the urban poor are also increasing, that situation is largely due to the migration of rural folks seeking job opportunities in the metropolitan areas.
Archbishop Lagdameo and the CBCP laud the government for instituting CARP (Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program) but lament that “its full implementation is still far off in the future -- if ever.” The government’s failure to carry out land reform is in no small measure due to “a landlord dominated Congress (which) watered down..its implementation.”
The “landed classes” which comprise the “traditional and economic elite of our country” lack the “vigor and determination” to implement the law. Simply put, “selfish class interests outweigh concern for the common good...”
The paper condemns “recent extrajudicial killings, perpetrated by groups from both the right and the left.” Farmers who struggle and fight for the implementation of land reform are considered a seditious threat to the economic elite and become targets of government sanctioned military campaigns. The same farmers also become targets of leftist brigands if unable to pay the “revolutionary tax” imposed on them by the NPA.
The bishops point out that condemnation of this structural evil in Philippine society is not enough. “We must,” they insist, “try bringing an end to evils that harm people and their good.”
The year 2007, the bishops remind us, is the 40th anniversary of the 1967 National Rural Congress. At that time, the Congress reached the “crucial conclusion that the Church must go to the barrios..(because) the rural part of the country were the most neglected by both the government’s development programs and the Chruch’s pastoral care.”
The Pastoral Statement concludes that “it is in not honoring the dignity of the least of our brothers and sisters among the poor that we contribute not a little to the injustices and inequalities that have become deeply ingrained in our national life.....”
Citing the Scriptural message from St. Matthew: “If you did it for one of my least brothers or sisters, you did it for me,” the bishops declare that “today, we see only too clearly the need for the reform not only of our national institutions but of our very moral fiber as a people.”
There are countless ways, big and small, that we can help alleviate poverty in the Philippines. The Missionaries of Charity orphanage needs food, medicine, clothing, cribs, shoes, etc. For those concerned and interested in helping the orphanage in Pasil, Cebu, you may send your contribution, in cash/check or goods, directly to:
Sr. Ruth, MC
Missionaries of Charity
Bgy. Suba Pasil
Cebu
Tel (032) 261-9097
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