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Charity group founders woes hobble OFW philanthropy

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By JEREMAIAH M. OPINIANO
www.ofwjournalism.net

CALOOCAN CITY — ON A side street of a biscuit factory here the smell of spoiled food, re-used cooking oil, murky wastewater, and sweat of a hundred laborers mixes with the fluttering haze of Maria Luisa Taycos dreams of migrant giving.

It is here where Tayco, recipient of the Singaporean communitys Golden Samaritan award, faces up to the reality of life after 14 years of working near Raffles CenterMSOffice and seven years of charity work on Bayanihan Centre in Pasir Panjang Road.

It is here where Tayco, who was hailed by a television show on New Years Eve as one of the best people the Philippines has, decided to sell her kidney.
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