Former "Kariton" boy and eating trash food to survive is now leaving his American dream as a Scientist!
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Former "Kariton" boy and eating trash food to survive is now leaving his American dream as a Scientist!
If you think that succcess is distant, I suggest you think it twice.
Success starts on simple things you do extraordinarily. Success could be the things you do in private that produce fruit in the open. Most of succesful person today didn't start on top or having all the resources needed for success are on their hands. Most of them starts on scratch, starts in an idea.
Fernando Kuehnel, a former "Kariton" boy who eats trash foods to survive is now living his American dream.
Fernando did not just step into a certain place and boom, he lands on success. He experience ups and downs that led him to the place where he is now.
At the age of 6, his biological parents left him and his two brothers on the stree of Project 8, Quezon City.
He said,“felt like a disposable diaper, discarded when soiled.”
Later, Fernando and his two siblings lived in an orphanage named Nayong Kabataan where they experience being bullied.
“They do things like that or they put hot pepper on your eye when you wake up, or your lips or your t*t* (sex organ),” he said.
Because of the traumatizing experience, he escaped from the orphanage when he is 10 and manage to live on his own by pushing a "Kariton" on the streets of Manila and eating trash foods to survive.
When he knew that his brother will be adopted and going to America, he decided to go back.
“So, they were gonna be adopted, just the two of them, and then one kid ran away from the orphanage looked for me, he said: Your brothers [are] gonna go and get adopted, so better go back, so I went back… I’m not stupid, right? I came back."
In Wisconsin, their second parents brought them back to the orphanage because things didn't work out.
After that, they were adapted by Kuehnels who treated them as their own. They were sent to public school.
Fernando attend n ESL (English as Second Language) class in Greenbay, Wisconsin, an hour bus ride.
He graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Nursing and is a Summa Cum Laude in Business Administration in Healthcare.
Today, Fernando is a clinical scientist for Novartis, a pharmaceutical company. He also wrote a book “My Third Parents” which is about his life's journey. He said, “You have to determine what success is to you. It doesn’t have to be millions of dollars. I tell my kids, there’s no problems that can’t be solved. You just won’t like the solution, but the problem can be solved. The takeaway is, you do have to work hard."
All the proceeds from the book (from Amazon and Barnes and Noble) will directly go to the orphanages in the Philippines through the Kabataan Charity he founded.
Fernando is hoping that more Filipino orphans will be adopted and given a ticket out of poverty.
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