Gina Lopez Now on Her Final Resting Place... She may be gone too soon but she had lived a meaningful life, dedicating her life for the Filipinos and the Environment...and now our "Earth Warrior" is Finally Home....
To remember this person ABS CBN will have a documentary special in honor of her titled
"Genuine Love" scheduled today after Gandang Gabi Vice
On Aug. 24 family, friends, colleagues, sent Gina Lopez off to her final resting place.
Instead of offering flowers Bantay Kalikasan Foundation decided to commemorate the former secretary by planting 130 saplings of trees at the La Mesa Ecopark.
On her younger years she run away from home three times to find herself, to find a new purpose for her life.
“It is difficult, I guess, to harness the power of the sun and hold it in your hand. Gina had the power of the sun,” -Fr. Nilo Tanalega
She was disconnected with her family for 20 years. Her family did not know if she is still alive.
“She loves people so much, and she loves the country so much that she left our family,” -Ernie Lopez
She joined Ananda Marga yoga missionary, and learned there ‘You cannot restrict your love to your family alone, you must give your love to the entire world’
After serving in Portugal and India, she spent 11 years in Africa.
“It was there that I learned to value water,” she said
“When one doesn’t have much, one treasures every little bit. I lived as the poor lived, so I learned how not to be wasteful.”
Gina eventually left the sect after falling in love with their leader Sona Roy, with whom she had two sons, and went back to Philippines
She’s pregnant with her first born when she went home to our homeland
She came back as a new person and became the managing director of ABS CBN Foundation.She was the daughter of ABS-CBN Chairman Emeritus Eugenio López, Jr. whom made the tagline of ABS CBN “In the Service of the Filipino”
Truly, she lived her life in the service of the Filipino.
She initiated Bantay Bata 163, because she said she watched a little girl in the news beaten up by her mother the country’s first media-based hotline. In 1997, Bantay Bata was the United Nations Grand Awardee for Excellence besting 187 countries all over the world.
She established Bantay Kalikasan and became known for her work in rehabilitating the Pasig River and La Mesa Watershed,
She produced educational television for elementary and Philippine Literature for high school like Sineskwela, MathTinik, Hiraya Manawari, Bayani, etc. For Sineskwela, Ms. Lopez was honored with the UNESCO Kalinga Award, the first Southeast Asian to earn such a distinction
But she would be most remembered for Her passion and love for the environment
And even prompted President Rodrigo Duterte to appoint her as DENR secretary. Even if she served as DENR for a very short time she was the most memorable secretary of the agency because she shut down mining operations and canceled contracts for mines
She love the song “I Believe I Can Fly” because it was her song for the Filipino
“Because we’re so colonizedand we think we’re small but if you feel small you will think small you will dream smallyou will do smallwe are not small we should feel we could fly.
Because she believed that Philippines should soar high she founded the (I.L.O.V.E.) Foundation in Loving Organizations for Village Economies a non-stock, non-profit organization The organization serves as a dot connector to loving organizations whose primary purpose is to develop areas by converging forces and resources in order to enable poor and vulnerable communities to economically sustain themselves, maintain ecological integrity, uplift their social conditions, and govern themselves effectively and justly.
So sad that this beautiful person is already dead now, but let's commemorate her death by spreading her passion and commitment to make this country a better place for the Filipinos.
“And if you can go into the quiet of your heart, you will feel that love is with you every single micro-second of the day, like every single micro-second of your existence. That love is there for you and it is here for you unconditionally. And may it continue to hold us, and may it continue to nurture us and propel us into creating a piece of heaven in this country.”
Written By: Roma Camille Chua
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