Sidelined call center worker needs help

By Ramon Dacawi

BAGUIO CITY -- Janice Himmoldang is 31, single, and a college graduate working as a call center agent but had to stop recently to go under the knife for breast cancer.

Financially drained by the costs of surgery and hospitalization, she appealed last week for support to sustain her medication while temporarily working as a helper in a “wagwag” (hand-me-down clothing) store in Baguio.

She wants to resume call center work as her family “is economically insufficient”, noted social worker social welfare assistant Feverly Dionesio of the municipal social welfare and development office of Tuba, Benguet.

“(Her) father works as a laborer in their place while (her) mother is not capable to work because she is recovering from her stroke,” Dionesio said.

Until her illness was diagnosed, Janice’s call center pay helped cover the school fees of her brother Israel, 24 and in third year college, and the needs of her three year old niece, a special child.

In a way she feels lucky, as her doctors did not advise chemotherapy after the mastectomy last March 11. She, however, has to take in anti-cancer drugs for sometime.

Janice, who lives at Km. 6, Asin Rd., Tuba, Benguet, can be contacted at cellphone number 09079784854.-RD.