This is NOT a job for superheroes

Caped wonders with super powers have been created throughout history during times when people were in dire need of "heroes". They could fly or do a Houdini from the arch-rival's snare. But, these heroes stay on the comic book (or the silver screen). Hence, we in the real world face challenges ourselves--sans super powers. Whether it's families breaking apart or declining literacy in the country, it is we who answer the call from where we are, with what we have.

Friday, May 12, 2006

Quiet heroism on the front page

Poor mom with rich heart adopts unwanted baby

First posted 03:58am (Mla time) May 11, 2006
By Christian V. Esguerra
Inquirer

Editor's Note: Published on Page A1 of the May 11, 2006 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer

FOR THREE people surviving on P50 a day in a squatter community in Manila, another mouth to feed ought to be the last thing on their minds.

But Salvacion “Sally” Ruiz, 58, and her two grown children did not hesitate to welcome Sandin Lee, a bouncing baby boy abandoned by his teenaged mother in the family’s 15-square-meter shanty in Vitas, Tondo.

Sally, a widow of eight years, was prepared to adopt the child even before he was born.

Full story at the Philippine Daily Inquirer

Friday, May 12, 2006

Quiet heroism on the front page

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