All she wanted was a bicycle, a pair of new shoes and to be able to finish her schooling. But her family was dirt poor, and eventually the 12-year-old Filipina girl grew so demoralised that she hanged herself.

“I just want to finish studying and to buy a bicycle,”

Mariannet Amper left a letter under her pillow describing her failed hopes and aspirations. Her family also found a diary in which she described the privations of a life with no money in Davao City, on southern Mindanao island.

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This is a deeply tragic story of extreme poverty in southern Philippines.

She asked her father for P100 which she needed for school projects, on the night of November 1st. Her father told that he did not have the money yet but he would ask her mum if she could get some money for her. The morning after, however, he was able to get a P1,000 cash advance for a construction work on a downtown chapel.

By the time her father got home, Mariannet already lay dead.