{"id":3710,"date":"2015-05-07T17:36:55","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T17:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=3710"},"modified":"2015-05-07T17:36:55","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T17:36:55","slug":"british-queen-honors-filipina-cancer-patient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=3710","title":{"rendered":"British Queen honors Filipina cancer patient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jaen-Mooney<\/strong> of New Heights, Kingstanding who hails from Butuan City, was granted the rank of Member under the Order of the British Empire, an order of chivalry.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The rank is awarded to persons for &#8220;significant achievement or outstanding service to the community,&#8221; the United Kingdom government says on its website.<\/p>\n<p>It is also awarded for local &#8220;hands-on&#8221; service, which stands out as an example to other people.<\/p>\n<p>Mooney is among the volunteers who established a community caf\u00e9 to build friendships and get access to training and jobs, the Great Barr Observer reports.<\/p>\n<p>She has also taken care of disabled people despite suffering from breast cancer herself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am so grateful and honoured to be given such an award. Never in my dreams that I would be given that kind of honour! What a humbling experience, indeed,&#8221; she tells the local publication.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed the \u2018Mother Teresa of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/kingstanding-and-oscott\">Kingstanding<\/a>\u2019 Doreen died in the arms of her daughter Pamela \u2014 \u00a0just two days after she received her honour from the Queen during a special ceremony at her bedside.<\/p>\n<p>Mother-of-three Doreen also launched a massive appeal in response to Typhoon Haiyan which devastated the Philippines in November 2013, raising more than \u00a350,000 all while undergoing chemotherapy at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Heartbroken Pamela shared her sad news on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/facebook\">Facebook<\/a>. She said: \u201cAt 6am in my arms, my beautiful mother Doreen Jaen Mooney sadly passed away in her sleep, finally at peace and without struggle.\u00a0 <strong>(Birmingham Mail)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jaen-Mooney of New Heights, Kingstanding who hails from Butuan City, was granted the rank of Member under the Order of the British Empire, an order of chivalry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3710"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}