World now reaches out to unwanted boy

Last Thursday, the Philippine Daily Inquirer banner story featured the story of an impoverished woman from Tondo who decided to take in an unwanted and nearly-aborted baby (see post below).

Little did we know that the story touched hearts and moved souls from foreign shores that offers to help the family poured in.

Two days after the story was published, another came out:


World now reaches out to unwanted boy
First posted 00:39am (Mla time) May 13, 2006
By Christian V. Esguerra
Inquirer


Editor's Note: Published on Page A1 of the May 13, 2006 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer

THE STORY OF THE BABY BOY unwanted by his mother, published by the Inquirer on Thursday, has touched the hearts of Filipinos here and abroad.

Sandin Lee Ruiz would not have been born had Salvacion "Sally" Ruiz, a former housemaid, not offered to adopt him two months before he was due on October 2004.

His biological mother, then 18, had wanted to abort the pregnancy.

By the afternoon of Thursday, the Inquirer had received e-mails and phone calls from readers here and as far away as California, Alaska and Hawaii in the United States, Ontario and Toronto in Canada, and Auckland in New Zealand, offering help for Sandin Lee's future.

Lilia Sevillano of New Zealand said she was "deeply moved" by the child's plight and was reminded of the time when her own family adopted a baby boy, also during a financially difficult period.

Full story at Philippine Daily Inquirer