Hard to live in Pinas that's why we all work together on how we can survive.

My dad was a farmer eversince and they were married early thru kasunduan (marriage arrangement by my grandparents) and had 10 kids but 3 passed away. But they were determined to raise us in good way. They had a goal which is to send us all to uni. They always said, EDUCATION cannot steal. So we tried to be all educated including our nieces and nephews.

There were always agreement, we will not eat too much meat if we want to survive and finish our course as they cannot afford to buy meat for us. We usually had fish and veggies all from farm and we are happy if we killed chicken to eat. I used to take rice +veggies+fish in banana leaves in the Uni where I was studying. Whilst my classmates food meat+rice in a decent tupper ware and sometimes they just buy from canteen. It served as challenge to me that if we finished studies everything will be alright. My main goal- to finish and help my parents.

When our eldest graduated, she helped my parents, as well as other elder brod and sis. Luckily I'm the 7th so I got more help from other sis and brods.
Almost all of them already finished their course and some nieces and nephews left studying. That is where my hard earned money goes. I am helping my nephew because my sis cannot able to find a job due to her difficulty of hearing and her hubby always help my Nanay in the farm. Her kid is brilliant, he's a Town mayor scholar so I only paid his 1 year sevice bus, and allowance. It is also my pleasure to send money to my Nanay as she did all the best for us. I want to pamper her as much as possible as she is already old and sending her is my happiness. That my goal before so I feel happy in supporting her. I am thankful and proud of her that she and my Tatay raised us brilliantly and taught us the golden rule. I feel 100-200£/month is not bad.