Geeklawyer was moved by the tale of an 11 year old girl in the Philip­pines whose dire exis­tence was a dirge of poverty hunger
depri­va­tion and mis­ery. So ground down was she that it drove her to sui­cide by hanging.

Her fam­ily lived in a shanty home with­out run­ning water or elec­tric­ity; she only wished for a bicy­cle, bag, new shoes and jobs for her par­ents so she could fin­ish pri­mary school.

Imme­di­ately prior to sui­cide, and prob­a­bly pro­vok­ing it, her fam­ily was unable to give her a measly $2 for a school project because her father was too ill to work and her mother had to work part-time in a noo­dle fac­tory for a dol­lar a day to feed her starv­ing kids.

Geeklawyer was so moved he toasted her mem­ory with a £50 bot­tle of champagne.