In times of need, the Filipino trait of "Bayanihan" or the effort of helping one another prevails to their community here as what they did to the bereaved family of a Filipino engineer who died in his sleep after succumbing to heart attack last week.
Since early this week, various individuals and groups have extended support, both financial and in kind, to the family of the late Jose Zoilo, 43, a civil engineer working at a company that implemented the new airport project in Doha. The Philippine Institute of Civil Engineers –Qatar Chapter (PICE-Qatar) of which Zoilo belongs started the fund drive to respond to the financial needs of his wife and three children and other community members took no time to shell out from their pockets.
Zoilo was sleeping with his two children when he suffered a stroke. "I tried to woke him up but he never reacted and learned later from mom after I took a bath that he was already gone," said seven-year-old Jun Angeline of Philippine School Doha.
Zoilo had just brought his family here last May after he started working in Qatar from August 2007 from a long stint in Saudi Arabia. His wife Jade said Jose or "Jun" was a loving husband who always look after the future of their children besides being an active community leader.
The fund-raising drive initiated by PICE-Qatar has also drawn attention of other community groups, a company and individuals that had already reached to Ras Laffan area who donated money and food stuff to help the bereaved family’s needs as they prepared to return to their home province in Bohol in the Philippines.
Among the other groups who helped were the Skyfreight Cargo who took charge of the freight handling of the family’s belonging back home , El Seif Company, ABS-CBN’s The Filipino Channel, Philippine School Doha and concerned workers of Qatar Petroleum based in Ras Laffan and Doha.
" I wholeheartedly thanked all the people who helped us during these times of uncertainty and I will never forget what they’ve done to us," said wife Jade. Source : The Peninsula / By CHRIS V PANGANIBAN
Since early this week, various individuals and groups have extended support, both financial and in kind, to the family of the late Jose Zoilo, 43, a civil engineer working at a company that implemented the new airport project in Doha. The Philippine Institute of Civil Engineers –Qatar Chapter (PICE-Qatar) of which Zoilo belongs started the fund drive to respond to the financial needs of his wife and three children and other community members took no time to shell out from their pockets.
Zoilo was sleeping with his two children when he suffered a stroke. "I tried to woke him up but he never reacted and learned later from mom after I took a bath that he was already gone," said seven-year-old Jun Angeline of Philippine School Doha.
Zoilo had just brought his family here last May after he started working in Qatar from August 2007 from a long stint in Saudi Arabia. His wife Jade said Jose or "Jun" was a loving husband who always look after the future of their children besides being an active community leader.
The fund-raising drive initiated by PICE-Qatar has also drawn attention of other community groups, a company and individuals that had already reached to Ras Laffan area who donated money and food stuff to help the bereaved family’s needs as they prepared to return to their home province in Bohol in the Philippines.
Among the other groups who helped were the Skyfreight Cargo who took charge of the freight handling of the family’s belonging back home , El Seif Company, ABS-CBN’s The Filipino Channel, Philippine School Doha and concerned workers of Qatar Petroleum based in Ras Laffan and Doha.
" I wholeheartedly thanked all the people who helped us during these times of uncertainty and I will never forget what they’ve done to us," said wife Jade. Source : The Peninsula / By CHRIS V PANGANIBAN
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