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By Anna Valmero
INQUIRER.net

Last December, blogger Mike Garcia posted on Multiply an entry about a retired janitor from the University of the Philippines Diliman.

People then re-posted the story in their own blogs, while some forwarded it to various mailing lists.

This story eventually got the attention of the Filipino cyberspace community, in particular the university’s alumni.

Meliton Zamora or “Mang Mel” has been the university’s janitor for four decades. But after he retired, he was informed that he would only get about 90 centavos as retirement pay for 171 days.

He also revealed that he has been guarantor for several UP student loans.

UP students apply for loans at the Student Loan Board of the University to pay tuition fees. But to get that, they would need a UP employee as guarantor. The guarantor pays for the loans if the students fail to do so.

Filipino blogger Garcia was among the students who benefited from Mang Mel’s kindness. Last December, Garcia visited Mang Mel’s house near UP Diliman and was surprised to find the sad plight of the retired janitor.

Garcia learned that some students were not able to pay their loans, which Mang Mel was guarantor. Thus those debts were deducted from his retirement pay.

Garcia eventually called on other students who failed to pay their loan to help Mang Mel. This call later turned into a concert, where proceeds were given to Mang Mel.

“Hindi naman ako nagsisi na tumulong ako noon, basta sa akin ang mahalaga makatulong ako sa mga estudyante [I do not regret that I've helped students by being guarantor. What's important is that I've helped them],” said Mang Mel with glimmer of hope in his eyes. credits, a bulk of also affected his retirement pay.

But the story doesn’t end there. Mang Mel said there are discrepancies in the computation of his leave.

In this video, Mang Mel recounts his predicament:

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    yan « journal entry #1 Says:
    October 13th, 2009 at 9:17 pm

    [...] The kindness of ‘Mang Mel’ [...]

  2. 11
    willy sarmiento Says:
    June 6th, 2009 at 12:37 pm

    to the recipients of mang mel’s kindness,

    you are very lucky to have been given such a rare kindness ng taong hindi nyo man kaano-ano. I’m sure most of you are now hotshots in the corporate world or big businessmen or even politicians. please do something for Mang Mel and his family. everything comes around guys. there is no such thing as free lunch, remember.

    from doha, qatar ofw’s

  3. 10
    Ivan Says:
    February 10th, 2009 at 9:46 pm

    Ivan here, an Escolarian (CEU-Mendiola), but reading the article and watching the video made me realize that those students who have not paid their loans didn’t learn what they are suppose to. They may have graduated already, but still, they dont deserve the degree they are holding now for they don’t know how to be grateful to the persons who helped them.

    My tita always tells me: “Iba ang utang, iba ang hingi”

    Conscience guys, conscience.

  4. 9
    Snow Says:
    February 5th, 2009 at 3:02 pm

    here’s the link:

    http://dearbloggery.com/2009/02/05/the-curious-case-of-mang-meliton-zamora/

  5. 8
    Snow Says:
    February 5th, 2009 at 11:44 am

    Kind man…I have written a blog about him to spread the word!

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