Cuyamen, Rolisa A.

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Personal Profile

A mother is a protector, disciplinarian and friend. A mother is a selfless, loving

human who sacrifice many of their wants and needs for their children. A mother
works hard to make sure their child is equipped with the knowledge, skills and
abilities to make it as a competent human being. Being a mother is perhaps the
hardest, most rewarding job a woman will ever experience.

A mother's central responsibility is to protect and nurture her children and help
them to grow up to become productive human beings.

Adelisa A. Cuyamen a 45-year-old full-time mom to her two children, she was born
on January 17, 1972 at Tanjay, Negros Oriental. She has five sisters and two
brothers.

Last October 2003, one of her brother died due to motorcycle accident.

"When I was a child I was able to work on a sugar cane farm starting 4 o'clock in
the morning, me together with my siblings started packing our "baon" (provision)
before we go to the farm," she said.

"And during afternoon I am on my way home to prepare myself for going to

school, I worked and at the same time I also go to school because I am thinking of
my future also that's why I work so hard to achieve my goals in life," she added.

My mother took up education, but sad to say she wasn't able to finished her studies
because of financial problems.

She also stopped from going to school because of another reason, she was enrolled
to a wrong subject which is the Political Science, she hates this subject so much
that's why she dropped out and decided to stop.

After that, she decided to look for a job to also help her family.

When she was 19-year-old, she went to Cebu to look for a job, and thank god she
found a good one. There she met her husband.

They fell in love my mother got pregnant and they decided to get married after she
gave birth to her first child.

"That was the happiest moment in my life when i gave birth to my first baby and
the second one was when I got married to my husband," she said.

And later on she gave birth to her second child on December 27, 1998.

And now they are happily living together.