Kilalanin si ‘Kuya Beda’ ng Hospicio de San Jose | I-Witness - video Dailymotion

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Noong 1964, iniwan ng kanyang ina si ‘Kuya Beda’ sa gate ng Hospicio de San Jose. Katulad ng maraming bata sa bahay ampunan, nangarap din si ‘Kuya Beda’ na magkaroon ng pamilyang mag-aampon sa kanya. Ngunit sa Hospicio de San Jose na rin siya lumaki at tumanda.     Panoorin ang ‘Ang Mga Anak ni San Jose,’ dokumentaryo ni Kara David sa #IWitness.     #iBenteSingko

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00:00But not everyone can choose Ampunin.

00:03There are some who grow old inside the Ampunan,

00:07like Kuya Beda.

00:10Do you want to be adopted?

00:11Before, we wanted to be adopted.

00:14We wanted to be adopted, but we were too old.

00:19Why did you want to be adopted before?

00:21So that we can have parents.

00:25We can love our parents.

00:30Why were Beda and Tabo not adopted?

00:35Maybe because they are too old.

00:39It depends on the matching of the parents.

00:44Sometimes, there are categories that they ask for.

00:49For example, special children.

00:51This is what I want.

00:53So usually, if it's not in the category

00:57that the adoptive parents are asking for,

01:03usually, the DSW does not give it to us.

01:07Kuya Beda has hydrocephalus when she is pregnant.

01:11It's a condition where the child's brain is filled with water.

01:17It may have an effect on Kuya Beda's thinking.

01:22According to him, there is a mother who takes good care of him.

01:27So the first thing he remembers is his mother.

01:31Yes.

01:32My Spanish, my Castilla.

01:35A Castilla mother.

01:36That's your mother?

01:38Yes, before, it was Sister Maura Tayabal.

01:44When you were being injected,

01:45was it to remove the water?

01:47Yes.

01:49How long did that take?

01:52About three to two weeks.

01:56Yes, to inject.

01:58When did the water run out?

02:01It was a long time ago.

02:03My child was still young.

02:04They took good care of me.

02:08The next day,

02:12my eldest daughter who was ten years old,

02:16When we were 10 years old, we were trained to work as nurses.

02:22It was like a bright future for us.

02:30Even though he was not chosen to be a priest,

02:32the mothers of Hospicio de San Jose felt the love and need of the young Beda.

02:40Are you serious?

02:41Yes.

02:42Really?

02:43Yes.

02:44Even when you were young?

02:46There were a lot of different classes.

02:49No, it was called the boys' department.

02:54In Spanish, it's called pequeños.

02:58Pequeños.

03:03Years later, he made friends inside the hospital.

03:09But he felt sad again when his friends left him.

03:16Who are your best friends?

03:20Benito, Imnalaldo.

03:23Benito?

03:25He is no longer with us.

03:28How old was Benito when you adopted him?

03:30Seven years old.

03:32How did you feel when you adopted Benito and sent him to the U.S.?

03:36It was okay.

03:38It's like they have a family.

03:41Like a mother and father.

03:43How about you?

03:45It's okay here.

03:47We are quiet.

03:50We are like a family.

03:55I don't go anywhere.

03:57What do you mean you don't go anywhere?

04:00I don't have a parent.

04:01I don't have anyone.

04:03Do you want to meet your parents?

04:08Your real parents?

04:10It doesn't matter anymore.

04:13I'm okay here.

04:19Sixty years later,

04:22Benito is still in the hospital.

04:24Benito's father, Kuya Beda.

04:28He was a janitor in the buildings where he used to play.

04:33His mother remembers that she used to play with him.

04:37He was the one who opened the gate of the house where his parents left him.

04:45Benito's parents are still alive.

04:52Did you get mad at your parents?

04:54No.

04:55Even if they left you here?

04:56No.

04:57Why?

04:58They are your parents.

05:00You love your parents.

05:02You love your father.

05:05Even if they left you here,

05:08you still love them?

05:09Yes.

05:11They are like God's children.

05:12We are God's children.

05:15We are a family.

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