ABSTRACT
[Translated from Tagalog] My name is Liberty 1 and I am here to discuss everything that happened to me and my family before and after I came to Canada. Today is June 8, 2005. I am a mother with four children. Two boys and two girls. I have been separated from them for almost ten years. I left the Philippines in 1990. I went first to Hong Kong to work and try my first luck in working abroad. My eldest son at that time was in the first year of high school and his siblings were in lower grades. With a heavy heart I had to do this. I worked in Hong Kong because I wanted to make a good future for my kids. Anyway, all parents want this for their children … I have no riches or property that they can inherit, right? Only a good education is what I can afford to give them. Not just education but a good one, which I was able to do by sending them to the university.
