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Featured Story: OFW VILMA G. PARINGIT
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OFW Vilma Paringit, Vilma for short, already has two (2) children when she went to work in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for five (5) years from 1982-1987. Like her namesake actress, Vilma Santos, who is famous for her drama roles in the big screen, her life working abroad was full of sad stories. She could never forget how she bade her four-year old Joan and five-year old Jorell when she first left for abroad and how the calling card of her husband, Eduardo, became one of her most prized possessions, serving as her only reminder of her love ones that she misses so much.
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No matter how lonely she felt, she did not want her family to know about it because it served as her biggest challenge as a mother not to allow her children to know how she feels. She would send them toys and chocolates. But eventually she realized there is a need for her to be with them as they grow-up so she decided to go home in 1987.
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Vilma with her employer
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The following year, Vilma and Eduardo established a “rolling store” from Vilma’s savings. They would go from house to house in the whole of Tuguegarao selling high-grade fishes. From their earnings in the store, they would earn enough to build a house and send their children to school.
But the success of their rolling store would not stop them from venturing into other endeavors. In 1994, they put-up a restaurant in Tuguegarao, which eventually lead to different branches outside the city proper. Money was good but unfortunately, it required them to stay on their toes all the time.
Like his parents, Jorell, Vilma and Eduardo’s eldest child, also ventured into business selling cork boards in his school. The Paringit couple saw the potential of Jorell’s business and using Eduardo’s experience working for a glass and aluminum store, they founded Sapphire Home Glass & Aluminum Supply. Aside from wholesale and retail, they also engage in finishing jobs in various construction projects. From there on, no one would doubt the success the Paringit Family in their chosen business.
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Paringit Family Picture
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Looking back, Vilma’s ambition was to become a nurse but her mother encouraged her to pursue being a midwife, the latter being a shorter course. Attractive offers to work abroad soon followed but for her, because of the pain she endured of being separated from her children, there is nothing sweeter than being at their side as they grow-up. That is why, though Vilma is against the wishes of her only girl, Joan, to work abroad like her, she knows someday Joan will realize that for every successful dream, there are always sacrifices to be made.
(Vilma's success story will be featured on Sunday, 22 July 2007 at Ms. Korina Sanchez's Rated K Special.)
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