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In Kabankalan, Negros Occidental, a household turns All Saints’ and All Souls’ Days into a chance for revenue, whereas serving to in sustaining a convention of remembrance
NEGROS OCCIDENTAL, Philippines – Annually, All Saints’ and All Souls’ Days turn out to be a time not just for remembering family members who’ve handed but additionally for some to earn further revenue.
Sixty-six-year-old Ninfa Sanisit has been doing that on the Kabankalan Metropolis Public Cemetery in Negros Occidental. Each November, for over 30 years, she has made tomb cleansing as a supply of extra revenue for her household.
Sanisit instructed Rappler on Friday, November 1, that her work offers an revenue stream for her household of 10 through the two-day annual vacation.
She started working on the cemetery within the late Eighties after neighbors inspired her to tackle the job. She cleaned tombs for households who didn’t have the time to are inclined to their family members’ resting locations, she mentioned.
Over time, Sanisit gained a loyal shopper base – every paying her P600 per tomb for cleansing, repainting, and lettering, she added.
Regardless of her age, she ensures the names on every tombstone stay legible and well-maintained – a element her purchasers admire, she mentioned.
“My purchasers know that I take this work critically,” she mentioned in Hiligaynon.
Because the demand for tomb cleansing grew, her husband, Nonoy, joined her, doubling their efforts. On All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day, they work collectively to wash tombs, repaint names on tombstones, and tidy graves.
Two of their youngsters and their grandchildren additionally pitch in, turning the annual holidays right into a household affair that has introduced them nearer through the years.
“It’s not only one individual’s job,” Ninfa mentioned.
She mentioned their revenue for this 12 months’s observance is predicted to be decrease as a consequence of current climate situations that made cleansing and portray troublesome.
She added that in earlier years, they earned as much as P10,000 through the interval, however this 12 months has introduced challenges.
Whereas intense, their work offers extra revenue. Nonetheless, as soon as the vacations are over, Ninfa and her husband pivot to promoting greens on the native market to maintain them for the remainder of the 12 months.
She mentioned solely about 10 aged people nonetheless work on the cemetery, as lots of their former colleagues have handed away and at the moment are buried within the very cemetery the place they work. – Rappler.com
