UPDATE: NEWS on Gina: June, 2006
* UPDATE: Our friend Mylene in Manila just sent us this latest picture of little Gina (still living on the streets of Manila) - I was thrilled to get it, and she's changed so much from my Nov/Dec. 2005 images of her.
7 months separate these pictures, from my Nov. 2005 images of her below, and Mylene said she had to clean up Gina's face before taking the pictures (it's very hard for her to stay clean living on the sidewalk) - the first thing I said when I saw these was "wow...she looks great; her face is so clean!"
Mylene's a friend of our webmaster Steve Griffith, and she saw my images of Gina & thought she looked familiar, so I asked Steve to tell Mylene exactly where to find Gina...and she did.
I know I have many of Gina's images up on this site, and I'm going to move onto some other images, but I was just so happy to be able to see new pics of her from just a few weeks ago, that I wanted to share them here.
Thank you Mylene, and Thank You Steve,
PJAMES
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Paul, I was very surprised to come across your site and see pictures of Gina (I have always known her as Nina). I used to live in Manila and saw this little girl every day. We used to bring her to our office and give her a bath; my mother actually tried to adopt her and bring her to the US, but it proved harder than we thought. The woman she is with is actually her grandmother. Her mother is around, but they are seldom together. At one point, her mother tried to sell Nina to us for 5,000 pesos, because she said that Nina was getting to old to help beg for alms; that broke my heart. Anyway, it was a joy to see her on your site, as I was wondering about how she was doing. I have some pictures of her that we took when we were there; let me know if you would like me to send you some.
dennis