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Vancouver Donations Save Filipina Barista's Life

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23 Jun 2013 38 views
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Vancouver Donations Save Filipina Barista's Life
Janette Camba, a temporary worker and familiar barista at Tim Hortons, for more than three years, is now back in her home country of the Philippines, recovering from a life-saving kidney transplant, paid for by almost $30,000 in donations raised in North Vancouver.

Janette Camba, a temporary worker and familiar barista at Tim Hortons, for more than three years, is now back in her home country of the Philippines, recovering from a life-saving kidney transplant, paid for by almost $30,000 in donations raised in North Vancouver.

Her boss launched a desperate last-ditch fundraising effort to save her life after a fatal kidney disease was revealed.

(READ the story in the Vancouver Sun)

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