Rose May Pimentel was just a typical student at a state university, except that apart from her school bag, she would also be seen lugging around a baby girl and another bag containing a pack of diapers and feeding bottles. She was a regular sight negotiating the stairs at the LRT-Pureza Station then snaking her way to school in Sta. Mesa, Manila.
This had been her typical commute, after giving birth to daughter Louisse at 18.”I would bring her with me to school because no one was available to take care of her,” she said.
Rose and her baby, who she nicknamed “Potchay,” were a prominent fixture in the classroom at her college where she took up a degree in Journalism.Her child would s…
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