Juana Tejada, the Filipina caregiver with terminal cancer that fought against her deportation and won, is an inspiration to caregivers and the Filipino community at large. Come celebrate her victory with her next Sunday (24 Aug), and join in the new campaign to ensure what happens to her doesn’t happen to anyone else.
Visit the Facebook events page: http://www.facebook.com/posted.php?id=21854964613&success#/event.php?eid=21854964613
[***UPDATE 25aug: My post about the event can be seen by CLICKING HERE.]
Below is the info sent to me by Migrante-Ontario:
After JuanaTejada got her right to permanent residency, the challenge to have better conditions for caregiver continues.
Join us in celebrating the victory of Juana Tejada and launching of a campaign.
WHERE: Trinity St. Paul United Church – 427 Bloor St. West (5 minutes west of Spadina Subway line)
WHEN: Sunday, August 24 at 1:00PM to 4:00PMFor more info call: 1-866-621-9655 or 647-205-5908
Please circulate widely.
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Migrante-Ontario member organizations:
Filipino Migrant Workers Movement; AWARE; Philippine Advocacy Through Arts and Culture (PATAC); Damayan Migrant Education and ResourceCenter; Migrante Youth; Migrant Workers and Family Resource Center -Hamilton; Pilipinong Migrante sa Canada (PMSC) – Ottawa
25/08/2008 at 5:20 am
[...] Migrante-Ontario, the Independent Worker’s Association (IWA), and associated groups celebrated Juana Tejada’s successful fight to gain permanent residence status. Juana is the live-in caregiver (LCP) that [...]
27/08/2008 at 3:04 am
Hi Alex,
I’m from Laoag City.
I congratulate you and Migrante and the other associations who fought for and gave their all-out support to Ms. Juana Tejada. I salute Ms. Tejada, too, for her courage. It’s so ironic that being a caregiver who tends to the sick, she should now be taken care of because of a terminal illness. But from your photographs of her, it seems the cancer does not pierce through her soul, instead it gives her more spirit to move on. She’s an inspiration.
I thank you for your comment on my blog, and because of it, I have come to know you and Migrante International. I’m very sure that this organization shows more care and support than our own government and its agencies which always brag about the Philippine economy rising up. It doesn’t care much of the welfare of our “kababayans” who, actually, are the ones making our economy afloat because of their dollar remittances. Despite the government’s bragging, though, most Filipinos do not feel any improvement on the economy, instead, life is becoming more and more difficult to face each day. In fact, the poor could hardly afford the dried fish “tuyo” nowadays.
It’s government’s rampant corruption that is making every Filipino die of poverty. Ms. Tejada’s cancer may still be cured because she has a very strong spirit and a very clean soul, but there’s one cancer that Filipinos are ardently praying for to reach its terminal stage – the Philippine government’s corruption and greed!
Regards to all our “kababayans” there in Canada.
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