For Renzie Peralta, it should have been an evening to celebrate. When children in the Philippines go Christmas caroling house to house, the hosts offer them fun snacks. But as Renzie was enjoying some treats, one host interrupted with a jarring question.
“Why are you so skinny? Doesn’t your mother feed you?” To this day, that memory brings her to tears. “My mother heard him,” says Renzie, now 27. “She was very hurt. Not just by the insult, but because our family really was going hungry.”
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