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Friday, August 1, 2008

Help Needed for Bruno Degawan

Hi Everyone!

Here’s an update with Bruno:

It’s good Lynette chatted with me this morning. Somehow I got hold of Roland Bosaing, President of the Sagada Migrant Workers Association (SMWA), who knows the what abouts of Bruno.

Bruno is presently comatose at St. Mary’s Hospital, Uijungbu, north of Seoul. It takes about 2 hours by train from Seoul to Uijungbu. There are many Cordillerans in this area.

Fr. Cho Hee In of the Uijungbu Catholic Migrant Workers Center is taking charge. Lynette is right about the tulong-tulong from the churches here. We had encoutered several cases na kasi. We personally know Fr. Peter Choi of Anglican’s Shallom Migrants Center in Seoul. He’s very supportive with CBO and in fact meron atang outreach program in Besao. He will be informed about Bruno.

We already coordinated the case to OWWA Officer Pat Cobarrubias, former OWWA OIC in La Union and Region 3. She likewise made endorsement to Consul Belo of ATN (Assistance to Nationals). We were assured that they’re going to visit Bruno next week.

I advised Roland to coordinate with CBO too.

So that’s the latest til Sunday again! I’m not a good reporter kaya pasensiya. I will post this at www.cbo-korea.blogspot .com

Cordilove reporting directly from Seoul, Korea!

(note: Robert 'Bruno' Degawan,60, from Sagada, Mountain Province. He suffered stroke July 27, 2008 and now at St. Mary's Hospital.

The above message was an offshoot of bibaknets@yahoogroups.com

For more information and donations please contact Roland Bosaing at 010-6870-4168)


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Visit (
http://www.visminorg.blogspot.com/) for more info about Chris and Charlie. They may not have had conquered the Kingdom of Seoul but had shown to the world that they have the talents, the looks and the charisma as Ambassadors of the Cordilleras in Korea!

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Thanks to everybody who in their own special ways have inspired and supported the organization in bringing the best of our bests. Kudos!

Matagu-tagu taku am-in!!

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Help us promote this Song. Super ganda ang lyrics and the melody, nahohomesick tuloy ako! Atlast the song is finally uploaded sa youtube. Most people from Kias know this song way back 1990's because this song was introduced by DAnny Tawanna who was the composer. Jun was so lucky that Danny gave him all his compositions to record. Danny is likewise lucky to have Jun record his songs. For everybody's info Danny suffered from a stroke and is now living in Nueva Viscaya. Just don't know if Jun pushed his plan of having Danny in his audience when he launched this album. (rainne68)