00:00Hello.
00:02How are you?
00:04How are you?
00:14Good day.
00:16Good day.
00:18We're looking for Estabilio.
00:22Estabilio.
00:24Oh, he's still here.
00:27Even though it's been 17 years,
00:35the little corner of Payatas still looks almost the same.
00:40Oh, I still remember this.
00:43Excuse me.
00:45Excuse me.
00:47Who is it?
00:50It's Miss!
00:52Miss!
00:54How are you?
00:57But what's noteworthy is that
01:00the interior of their house has changed a lot.
01:05The cement floor
01:08has been replaced with tiles.
01:11The old items that they used to pick up from the trash
01:19have been replaced with new ones.
01:22And you have a refrigerator now?
01:24Yes.
01:25That's great.
01:26Maybe you still have a lot of food inside.
01:28No, I don't.
01:32I'm so proud of you.
01:36You now have legit food.
01:39Yes.
01:40That's great.
01:41It's from the market.
01:43You have a lot of food from the market.
01:45Yes.
01:47We have eggs and cheese.
01:49Before, we didn't have that.
01:51You didn't have a refrigerator?
01:53No, we didn't.
01:55We only had a stove.
01:57Now, we have this and that.
02:00You have a blender.
02:02Yes.
02:03There's still a second floor.
02:04I used to go up here.
02:05Yes, it was made of wood.
02:07Why? Is it different now?
02:09Of course.
02:10Let's go up.
02:11Of course, it's different now.
02:21But it's made of wood.
02:23Right? It's cement.
02:25Yes.
02:26There are four rooms.
02:28Four rooms?
02:29Yes.
02:30That's amazing.
02:31Yes.
02:32That's amazing.
02:35Yes, it's a child's room.
02:37It's a child's room?
02:39Yes.
02:40Wow.
02:41This is John and Lynn's room.
02:44John and Lynn's room.
02:46They love the bag.
02:47We have a terrace.
02:50We have a terrace.
02:52Yes.
02:53We have a terrace now.
02:55Of course, we have a tub here.
02:57It's not in the bathroom anymore.
02:59We have a washing machine.
03:01It's in the bathroom now.
03:02Yes, we have a washing machine.
03:04It's not in the trash anymore.
03:05No, we bought it.
03:06Wow, that's great.
03:08That's it.
03:09We bought it.
03:11We bought it.
03:13Really?
03:14You're a plant.
03:16Yes.
03:17She's a green-tongued plant.
03:19I'm not.
03:20The plant might get stiff.
03:25But the biggest change I saw
03:29was on the wall of their little home.
03:33Oh, my God.
03:34Everything is done.
03:36They're all done.
03:38Yes, just one child.
03:40She's also a social worker.
03:42Second year, right?
03:44Congratulations.
03:46Two colleges,
03:47and senior high graduates.
03:49Oh, my God.
03:51Right?
03:52It's all about hard work,
03:55perseverance,
03:56and dreams.
03:57Of course, there are dreams
03:59and God's will, right?
04:05That's your house.
04:07At 1 o'clock in the morning,
04:09Ning Ning woke up to go to the market.
04:12But in the market...
04:13After the American Documentary,
04:15it was like a realization for me.
04:17Because I thought,
04:19yes, my children are growing up.
04:22They'll go to high school, college soon.
04:25If I'm just in the garbage,
04:28it's not realistic for me
04:31that my dreams for my children will come true.
04:34Then I made my dream come true.
04:37Our effort to get married at that time.
04:41We worked hard.
04:46Ning Ning worked in a wetland.
04:49Despite her long hours and small income,
04:52she taught herself to persevere.
04:55I went to the comfort zone.
04:57For 11 years, 14 years,
04:59I was a scavenger.
05:01That's the only thing I know
05:04how to survive.
05:05Yes, that's it.
05:08There were times when she just wanted to go back
05:10to the usual garbage.
05:13But everything changed
05:15when she received her first salary.
05:18My first income from the wetland,
05:23I earned 600 pesos.
05:25Then I bought a whole chicken for 600 pesos.
05:31Then I fed it, and we went home.
05:33I fed it here.
05:34That's what my children ate.
05:36I cried.
05:37Because that was the first time
05:40that my children ate something
05:42that didn't come from the wetland.
05:43I really cried.
05:44Because it's like,
05:45Oh, it's possible.
05:47It's possible.
05:48It's possible to eat something that's not garbage.
05:50It's possible not to eat something that's not garbage.
05:53That was my motivation
05:57that I really need to work hard.
06:02After a few years of being a scavenger,
06:05Ning Ning and her husband
06:07moved to an NGO.
06:12They both worked hard and persevered.
06:17In the past,
06:18she used to wake up early to go to work.
06:30Now, her work is no longer garbage.
06:38Ning Ning is now an Operations Officer
06:40of Woven.ph,
06:42an NGO that helps women
06:44who work as scavengers in the wetland.
06:47According to Ning Ning,
06:48it's a great thing to have an organization
06:51that trusts her.
06:53I continued to work there
06:55because I was inspired by the opportunities
06:59that I had there.
07:01I was inspired by the opportunities
07:03that I had there.
07:04I was inspired by the opportunities
07:07that other people see
07:09that I have potential.
07:10Why don't I want to see that for myself?
07:14When I met Ning Ning in 2007,
07:17it was clear to me
07:18that she already accepted her fate.
07:21And if she has a dream,
07:23it's only for her children.
07:26But because of this dream,
07:29she was able to prove
07:31that change is still possible.
07:34I've been a scavenger for 14 years.
07:36I've been doing this for 14 years
07:38with my family.
07:40We've been doing this for 14 years.
07:42Did you think it would last forever?
07:44Yes, I thought it would last forever.
07:45Even if my family told me
07:48that I should just stay there,
07:50they thought I would be happy.
07:52But I had no choice.
07:53That was my mindset before.
07:56I had no choice.
07:58But it was my realization
08:00that I should realize
08:02that I should work hard first.
08:04I shouldn't just stay there.
08:07Because we're human.
08:10We can do it.
08:21Thank you so much
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