OFW Mother Wins Tickets for a Reunion with Her Daughters in Malaysia

PLDT Global and SM Cinema’s campaign gives Rodelyn Serna an opportunity for family time beyond emergency visits.

Rodelyn Serna, a domestic helper in Malaysia, has won two roundtrip tickets that will allow her daughters to visit her, bringing a different kind of homecoming to a family shaped by overseas work.

The prize came through Love Knows No Distance, a campaign involving SM Cinema and PLDT Global, through its Ramdam digital advertising platform and TinBo marketplace.

For Serna, the tickets mean the possibility of time with daughters Stephanie and Daniela without the emergencies that have often shaped her visits to the Philippines.

Years of parenting across a distance

Before working abroad, Serna was a private school teacher in Mindoro. Her husband worked drying palay, and the couple struggled to stretch their earnings across household expenses and their children’s needs.

She left for Malaysia hoping to provide more opportunities for her family.

Over nearly 11 years of overseas work, calls, messages, and brief visits helped maintain their connection. But distance also meant missing school events, milestones, and ordinary days together.

“Tuwing uwi ako lagi may emergency,” she recalled. “Wala pang happy moments.”

A message becomes an opportunity

Serna discovered the campaign while browsing social media. It invited overseas Filipinos to submit messages to loved ones at home.

Initially doubtful that the prize was genuine, she nevertheless entered. Weeks later, she learned she had won tickets for two family members to travel from the Philippines to Malaysia.

Her reaction reflected years of accumulated pressure: “Sa 11 years ng stress, nakaranas ako ng saya.”

The reunion was still ahead of her in the supplied account. She looked forward to showing her daughters around the place where she had spent years working.

“Makakasama ko kayo,” she said. “Gusto ko kayo ilibot dito.”

The story’s milestone is the opportunity those tickets create: time for a mother and her daughters to be together without a crisis setting the agenda.

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