Photo Release
January 22, 2009

A CHILD’S PRESENT: Independent Senator Richard J. Gordon receives a drawing from three-year old Mohammed Saleh Wady, a Filipino-Palestinian who, along with his entire family, was among the 34 recently repatriated Filipinos from Gaza. Gordon said he will help Mohammed’s father, Saleh Soliman Wady, to acquire Filipino citizenship so he may continue to live in the Philippines with his wife of 21 years, Aisha Manlalangit-Wady, a Filipina, and their other children.

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