Nicola Tallent
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have issues regarding money.
They're living in a country where there is no health care, where there is no social services.
And one of them in particular you mentioned has a... Yes, Pangehan had a four year old niece.
So he has a niece and he says that she's four years of age and she's very close to me as she goes to school with my daughter.
They're the same age.
She has been diagnosed with cancer and
There's no you have to you have to pay for that in the Philippines.
There is no free health care.
So he talks about the chemo is very expensive.
So he gets a job on the ship.
He says, my superior in the ship approached me and offered me some extra money to do an extra job.
I thought I was smuggling only tobacco.
He describes that in the beginning that he thought it was tobacco.
And, you know, then he he learns that it's actually drugs.
And he's the primary breadwinner in that family.
Lau, who's the 29 year old, is the single parent.
He seems to be supporting his two daughters, age seven and eight, plus his parents who look after them.
And he got letters to court from his mother and from others.
And again, it's the money that's the motivation.
But when you come to the non-Filipino, there's two Scottishes or three Scottish families.