SOME Filipinos have been found with a blood type of “H”: Hero. Two groups of Filipinos don’t know they have it. But with hard work and a shared love for their families and the motherland, they’re able to carry the economy now clambering from a rut.
The first group wires money from over-200 countries and territories, as migrant workers, permanent residents, naturalized citizens and many more. They had been hailed “heroic” by a former Philippine president.
But the second group of heroes—agricultural workers—surprised mainstream development analysts. The agricultural sector became the Philippines’s saving grace during a pandemic.
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