Daisy Palomares
Daisy, 22, is a 2nd year student at the Philippine Christian University, is pursuing her BS Elementary Education Major in Early Childhood Development . Her parents separated when she was only 6 years old, leaving her and 5 other siblings under the sole care of her mother, who supported them by working as a cook at their hometown in Laguna. Since childhood, Daisy always wanted to be a teacher and was always moved by the lack of teachers in the public schools in the Philippines. Though she had wanted to be a journalist, she felt that majoring in Education would help solve this crisis , and would also be a lucrative career in helping her family out of poverty. Given her mother could no longer support them, Daisy, along with 3 other sisters, was turned over to the Bahay Tuluyan drop off center for children, where she was given the opportunity to learn about issues concerning other unfortunate children like her. It was at the Center that she thrived and eventually ended up conducting life skills seminars on Children's Rights, and proactively contributed her time in helping out as a street educator for unfortunate children in Manila.
