The struggling driver and the bag of cash

Manila - He needed money for his sick wife and overdue rent, but a Filipino motorcycle taxi driver was honest enough to return $17 000 (aboutR120 000) left behind by a passenger.

Iluminado Boc returned the money to police in Tagbilaran city on central Bohol island last week, the Philippine Daily Inquirer reported on Monday.

The woman who lost the bag of cash had just reported it to police when Boc showed up at the precinct, the newspaper said.

"It was not mine," Boc was quoted as saying.

Boc, 45, said he was struggling financially because his wife was taken to a hospital the same day he found the money, and they had unpaid rent.

The owner rewarded him with 1 500 pesos (about R225), about seven times what a motorcycle taxi driver makes a day. - Sapa-AP
http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=126& art_id=nw20070702050905608C511464

Phyu Phyu Thin has headed the NLD’s AIDS programme since 2002, tapping into the party’s youth league and recruiting students and Buddhist monks as volunteers to help about 1,000 people with HIV from around the country.

When patients come to Yangon, she helps them find places to stay and tries to match them up with the few treatment services available, mainly at clinics run by international aid agencies.

She also organises home-based care for patients who need it, and has found private donors to pay for life-prolonging drugs for about 30 people.

Although she’s not a doctor herself, she talks about the people she helps as “her patients.” Eleven of them were so distraught by her arrest that they held a prayer vigil last month to call for her release, only to be detained themselves for four days.

Her patients range in age from two to almost 50. They are at different stages of illness, and many live in rural areas where even basic health services are limited.

“By the time many of them come to us, they already have AIDS-related illnesses,” Phyu Phyu Thin said.

Getting treatment to people in remote parts of the country is one of her most difficult challenges, a struggle shared by international agencies that are forced to work within strict limits imposed by the military government.


Read more about Phyu Phyu visit:
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Hi Linsi,

By "We can change the world" you give us some hope in mankind

linsi wrote:

QUOTE:

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil
is for good men to do nothing...
Edmund Burke (1729-1797)


can i make this as a logo? :unsure: :)

I would like to post this image every now and then
which i think fits the thread

Jacques wrote:

QUOTE:
Hi Linsi,

By "We can change the world" you give us some hope in mankind

ordinary people make the difference jacques

there are many unsung heroes and heroines
but they make the difference.

we can change the situation in our own little way.

another good news.

There was an outstanding achievement award of 15,000 pounds ($30,000) for an Indian company, Selco, which provides affordable solar power systems to the poor.


so the poor can also avail of these...





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Norzia Mahboobsami, the head of the women's council, receives threatening telephone calls daily.

&quot;I simply tell them they have a wrong number,&quot; she explained matter of factly. Last year, Ms Olomi's driver dropped her off at the women's centre and then set off on another errand. He was shot through the car window as policemen stood by.


Ms Olomi, who still carries his picture in her purse, was not deterred and the centre reopened in the governor's compound.


Empoweging Afghan Women..

It is an oasis in a desert of oppression. Beautiful, big-eyed young girls learn their ABCs, while their mothers are taught everything from English to computer training.


Squashed cheek by jowl in a couple of mud huts, widows work away at old-fashioned, hand-wound sewing machines, creating beautifully embroidered clothes to sell at market. For an investment of £4,400 over three months, the British/Danish-funded project has trained the women. And graduates keep their machines, allowing them a revenue stream and a way to feed their children.




we can change the world...
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article2651049.ece

linsi wrote:

QUOTE:


hi jacques

i agree, but in times of troubles
we can rely on our inner strength
pray to our God whatever His name and
whatever we conceive Him to be,
own sound mind and good dispositions
as we await the light of dawn

don't you agree?


:)

kindly, soft-spoken volunteer who runs the feeding center at the church, knows that the soup kitchen may breed dependency and mendicancy among those it seeks to help. But he has seen real changes, especially among the children, who he says are now livelier, cleaner, and more respectful. Many, he says, are off rugby, as they no longer need to sniff the glue to take their minds off hunger. They are also more energetic, no longer sleeping on the plaza all the time.




opened, the soup kitchen at the Quiapo church on June 17 last year, the Divine Mercy Apostolate had enough money to last only three days. &quot;We didn't know where the money for the fourth day would come from,&quot; he says. &quot;But one of our members from Alabang pitched in. Then there were more donations. We sent solicitation letters to balikabayan from Las Vegas and they raised more than $1,000. Many come here to help. Some students from La Salle or Ateneo come and say, here's P2,000 or P3,000, I'm giving it to you instead of holding a birthday party. One Chinese guy saw the feeding and he came back with a truckload of rice. One guy comes here every week to give P100. Others give eggs or pan de sal.&quot;

Tonight, in fact, each cup of porridge will have half an egg, courtesy of an anonymous donor. At noon, there was bottled water for everyone. Freddie sees it all as a sign not just of human compassion but of God's grace.

Quiapo has always been a lost-and-found place. Not too long ago, says Freddie, a four-year old girl was abandoned at the plaza, apparently left to fend for herself with only a bag containing her clothes and toys. One of the sidewalk peddlers found her and took her in his care. Freddie himself came here in search of something he had lost, perhaps his own vision of Divine Mercy. Somewhere, among all these lost and abandoned souls, he has found, if not that, at least something bigger than himself.

It is 6:45. Darkness has set in. The hundreds of hungry have been fed, and they start walking away from the church, disappearing into the shadows with their stories and their secrets. The lugaw cart, its the pots now empty, is rolled back inside the gates. Tomorrow, another day — and another round of feeding — begins.


surely all of us, giving our efforts could make a difference.
http://pcij.org/i-report/1/soup-kitchen.html
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