By Ramon
Dacawi
BAGUIO CITY -- A
lady’s purse found inside a passenger jeepney triggered a collective act of
compassion when the founder and her officemates learned the owner was
undergoing life-time dialysis treatment for kidney failure.
Joanne Pimentel, a
special investigator of the Commission on Human Rights here, said she was on
her way home from work to Trancoville when a fellow passenger found a lady’s
wallet which she turned over to the civil servant.
Pimentel tried but
failed to contact the owner, dialysis patient Fryla Basilio de la Pena of
Labueg, Kapangan, Benguet. She turned to the internet and found out that Ede la
Pena was a kidney patient undergoing life-time hemodialysis at the Baguio
General Hospital and Medical Center.
Informed of the find
and the owner’s predicament, lawyer Lyndon Morales of the Commission on Human
Rights told officemates to pass the hat.
The office headed by
Lyman Salvador pooled over P3,000 the staff added to the wallet’s
original content of P322 and then asked the owner to visit and claim her loss
and their gesture of support.
“I wanted to meet the
wallet owner but I was on field work in Ifugao when she came to the office,”
Pimentel said.
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