"A human face" on poverty in the Philippines

annaread
November 12, 2007

A reflection on last week’s tragic news: Like many concerned Filipinos, I was emotionally overwhelmed and driven to tears by the suicide of Marianet Amper. I could not fathom how and why a 12-year-old girl, whose life as a conscious and thinking human being was just beginning, could think of ending it by hanging herself. Read the article.


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