By Kyle Aristophere T. Atienza, Reporter
LILY G. TERRENIO, 55, stocks up on instant noodles, powdered milk, canned sardines and other processed foods at the end of each month.
A single woman who has been jobless since she returned to the Philippines in 2021 after working as a chambermaid in the United Arab Emirates for five years, she lives off P25,000 ($435) that her sister from Dubai sends every month.
“That is all I can afford,” Ms. Terrenio, who also takes care of her senior mother, a niece and a two-year-old kid that her niece left with her, told BusinessWorld. “This is better than not eating at all.”
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