Living with the dead: Aid reaches 82 year-old living in cemetery
instead of having pillows and blankets, tatay used a sack to keep himself warm from a cold-draft. His life there seemed so difficult – he was too frail that he can’t even lift a water container that he can use for himself. He would rather choose to take a bath occasionally because the closest spring is far from where he stays cannot afford to walk.
Every person at one point has faced some sort of hardship in life. But, fate always has its own way of making life worthwhile. When the odd seems unfavorable, people tend to resort to unconventional ways in order to live – going through great lengths for survival.
actions were taken by the Barangay. Beforehand, Pedro stayed under the care of his niece Merly Lloren but due to the constant quarrel he got into with Merly’s mother, distancing was the only way for him to live a peaceful life.
“Usahay, mapuno akong hunahuna ug pangutana kung kanus-a pa man ko mapatay ani arun dili na nako maagian pa ning kalisod sa kinabuhi (Sometimes the thought of my death comes to mind so that I will no longer suffer these hardships in life),” Tatay Being able to live in Pedro shared with a deep solitude comes with In June 10, 2020, Pedro challenges especially with sigh. went viral on social media his old age. Out on his because of his unique own, he moved from one Sartaguda Pedro Lesondra, also known living condition. He was place to another until he as “Tatay Pedro,” 82 seen housed in a shabby found the perfect place years old, is a confirmed shelter in a cemetery in – it was in a cemetery bachelor who never Trento, Agusan del Sur. that he decided to stay. had children. Given the Someone took a video Tatay Pedro left Merly’s circumstances, Merly of him in that place and place without any Lloren, a thoughtful niece, uploaded it on Facebook, personal belongings – took all the responsibilities and was removed later no clothes (except the of extending help to her when the appropriate ones he wore). At night,
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