CEBU CITY, Philippines — Jerry Marivellosa could not keep himself from thinking about home while he attended to his dried fish products on Monday, December 16, 2019. A native of Sarangani province in Mindanao, the 43-year-old businessman arrived in Cebu on Sunday, December 15, with his wife Shirley and 13-year-old son Joshua, to sell different varieties […]
Dried fish vendor whose home in Sarangani collapsed due to magnitude 6.9 earthquake finds hope in Cebu's agri-fishery Christmas trade fairWhile tending to his stall at the Cebu Provincial Capitol’s Agri-Fishery trade fair for the Pasko sa Kapitolyo, Jerry Marivellosa could not help to think of his family back in Sarangani Province after he learned that his father’s home collapsed after the Magnitude 6.
But just as Jerry and his family arrived in Cebu on Sunday, the news about the magnitude 6.9 earthquake that hit Davao del Sur came in.Jerry’s family’s home in Glan, Sarangani is only 143 kilometers south of Padada, Davao del Sur, the epicenter of the earthquake. “Hinaot unta nga tabangan mi ninyo nga mahurot ni aron makauli mi sa amo ug makasulbad mi sa among problema didto,” Jerry said.
Governor Gwendolyn Garcia led the ribbon cutting of the Agri-fishery fair as well as the tree lighting of the Capitol’s Christmas tree at the center of the new heritage plaza at the Capitol compound.
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