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Suicide girl laid to rest; GMA Network fulfills her wishes
« on: November 11, 2007, 02:11:01 AM »
Suicide girl laid to rest; GMA Network fulfills her wishes
11/10/2007 | 06:45 PM

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ZAMBOANGA CITY - A poor girl who was driven to commit suicide because of extreme poverty and hopelessness was buried Saturday in Davao City.

Mariannet Amper, 12, hanged herself November 2 inside their house in the village of Maa. Hundreds of people, many of them moved by the girl's tragic end, came to pay their last respects. They cried as the girl's white coffin was buried.

GMA Network also aired a special on Saturday as a tribute to the girl, who had written a letter asking the TV program "Wish Ko Lang" (I Just Wish) for a pair of school shoes and bicycle for her younger brother and goats for her unemployed parents - her father, Isabelo, a former construction worker and mother, Magdalena.

The letter was written two years ago and was never mailed for lack of money to buy a postage stamp. GMA Network has given the family a mini-van, a dozen goats and a bicycle just as what the girl wished for.

"All her classmates are present and they cried also. We cried, but could do nothing else now," the girl's father said.

Alphonse Rivera, head of the child rights organization Salinlahi Alliance for Children's Concerns, said the effects of poverty have been evident even during the time of previous administration, but had allegedly worsened under the Arroyo administration.

"We have already seen and heard news of adults committing suicide in desperation borne out of poverty by jumping from billboards or hanging themselves," Rivera said.

He said that since 2005 surveys showed rising statistics on the incidence of hunger among Filipinos “and yet no decisive move to alleviate economic conditions has been done by the government."

President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo this week has ordered the released of P1 billion to further accelerate the government's hunger-mitigation and anti-poverty program.

But Rivera said funding was "too little, too late." "Economic policies must be reviewed to enable the people to live a decent life. Increase wages, nationalize the oil industry, genuine land reform for the farmers – these are what the people are calling for but has remained unheeded," he said.

Rivera also cited a recent study by the International Food Policy Research Institute that 11 million Filipinos live on less than $1 (P42) a day experienced hunger. "Many children have stopped schooling and are forced to work to help in the family's income. Yet after all their efforts, at the end of the day, they still go to bed hungry," he said. - GMANews.TV

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Re: Suicide girl laid to rest; GMA Network fulfills her wishes
« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2007, 02:17:06 AM »
This is nice that GMA Network fullfilled the little girl s wishes. But I wish that many rich people in our country doesnt need to wait a tragedy to happen before they share their blessings.

And it is a BIG scandal that most of our political leaders are enriching themselves (owns mansions and expensive cars) while millions of Filipino people are starving to death.

Our government must soon find a way to alleviate the poverty problem in our country.

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« Reply #2 on: November 11, 2007, 02:51:00 AM »
Sakto gyud, a case of too little, too late..murag, aanhin pa ang damo kung patay na ang kabayo.

Mao man gyud na pinaka frustrating sa atong nasud, Ms Asianfairy. The extreme divide between the rich and the poor. I sometimes feel like in our country, there's only the very rich or the very poor. We're a nation of extremes. On one side you see people like Panfilo Lacson, who has millions of dollars deposited in US banks...and on the other, you see this girl who was driven to suicide by extreme poverty, and other girls like her who go to bed hungry. Ours is a country of incongruities, where you see magnificent mansions protected by expensive fences in Ayala Alabang, and yet you see many little shanties filled with hungry people just outside that expensive village. The two groups might as well be from different planets, because the rich live in a bubble, protected from the outside world of wretchedness by their air-conditioned luxury cars and their air-conditioned palaces.

I wonder how it feels to be a rich person in the Philippines. I wonder if the rich person who drives his luxury car feel a pang of pity for the kid who knocks on his car window, selling sampaguita. He probably thinks the kid is a vermin who'll scratch his precious BMW. I'm not chastising people for being rich, it's their right to enjoy their money...

I just wish everyone in our country are able to have enough food to sustain them, and enjoy basic services that people in wealthier countries get.

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Re: Suicide girl laid to rest; GMA Network fulfills her wishes
« Reply #3 on: November 11, 2007, 06:12:13 AM »
We have the same wish Ms C2 H4.



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Re: Suicide girl laid to rest; GMA Network fulfills her wishes
« Reply #4 on: November 11, 2007, 06:31:41 AM »
We have the same wish Ms C2 H4.



I agree to both of you asianfairy and C2. It was nice of GMA to contribute the items to better their life, but what i don't understand is why give them a minivan if they are so poor that they cannot afford fuel or insurance. To me it would make more sense to offer to build them a small home or provide them with something they could really use such as clothing, food,electricity and money. It just a shame that this tragedy had to occur before help was offered.

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Re: Suicide girl laid to rest; GMA Network fulfills her wishes
« Reply #5 on: November 11, 2007, 06:43:17 AM »
Glen,
I wondered the same thing.
Why not build them a small house?
or pull some strings and get them jobs?

But that is a sad case. Driven to Suicide from extreme poverty.
That should all give us a reason to be thankful for what we have
And I hope something will be done to others in extreme need.

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« Reply #6 on: November 11, 2007, 08:00:26 AM »
Glen,
I wondered the same thing.
Why not build them a small house?
or pull some strings and get them jobs?

But that is a sad case. Driven to Suicide from extreme poverty.
That should all give us a reason to be thankful for what we have
And I hope something will be done to others in extreme need.

I hope so too emlegaspo.

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Re: Suicide girl laid to rest; GMA Network fulfills her wishes
« Reply #7 on: November 11, 2007, 08:25:19 AM »
Or, give them a fish rod to use for fishing instead of fish.  that's just categorical statement but what I am saying is that we need to have livelihood program for these people so they can be sustainable.  Maybe they can use the mini-van for pamasahero? 

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Re: Suicide girl laid to rest; GMA Network fulfills her wishes
« Reply #8 on: November 11, 2007, 10:30:33 AM »
Puede pud ma negosyo ang mini-van...



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Re: Suicide girl laid to rest; GMA Network fulfills her wishes
« Reply #9 on: November 11, 2007, 12:11:54 PM »
How sad.... maau gani wa ko kahuna-huna sauna ug suicide adtong wa na mi madaw-daw...

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« Reply #10 on: November 11, 2007, 12:18:27 PM »
You're a survivor man gud swaks...

and you're one of the lucky few who are just naturally happy



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« Reply #11 on: November 11, 2007, 01:15:41 PM »
Ana jud na C2, i didn't know any better... all i know is i just want to be happy no matter what!

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Re: Suicide girl laid to rest; GMA Network fulfills her wishes
« Reply #12 on: November 11, 2007, 01:56:47 PM »
Ana jud na C2, i didn't know any better... all i know is i just want to be happy no matter what!

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