Bug-eaten savings

Adonis Buemia shows about P50,000 worth of 1,000 and 500-peso bills eaten by termites after he hid the money—his life savings—in a cabinet at home. After the 70-year-old ice delivery man approached a TV program for help, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas facilitated the replacement of Buemia’s mutilated banknotes with a bank near his home. Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho photo