”It won’t be long before my family will start to ask me about when I am getting married. I’m 23 and currently I’m really focussed on my work as an investigation journalist. I come from a middle-class family, In The Philippines that means you eat 3 meals a day. My dad worked most of his life as a driver. Unfortunately he never got to finish his education because his parents simply did not have the money to pay for it. My dad worked really hard to be able to send me to private school. I am the first one in in my family who graduated college. Now, I help my brother pay for his tuition and I also support my parents. So yes.. getting married is the last thing on my mind.”
(Manila, Philippines)

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