Buying a fishing boat for his father and a house for the family was one of Minandro Pascual’s dreams until he was forced to drop out of school right after he was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in July 2015. “Being the eldest in a brood of five, he kept on telling me about doing this or that, and improving our family’s situation. ADVERTISEMENTAt the time he dropped out of school, Pascual was a freshman at Philippine Maritime Institute. To pay for their son’s chemotherapy sessions, Amaro and her husband, Armando, who fishes for a living, were forced to sell their boat. The family lives in Dagat-dagatan, Caloocan City.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer September 23, 2018 21:45 UTC