Zaldy Bueno, a 37-year-old instructor from Gumaca, Quezon was hailed as the fourth Happiest Pinoy, winning Cebuana Lhuillier’s. Look for the Happiest Pinoy which praises and commends the Filipino’s natural “idealism, flexibility, and expectation in the midst of various life catastrophe”.
Zaldy bested nine different finalists from various classifications, winning 1 million cash and a trophy.
The board of judges made out of Usec. Zenaida Maglaya, Gang Badoy Capati, James Deakin, RJ Ledesma, Love Anover-Lianko, Jonathan Yabut, Winston Maxino, Rommel Arellano, and Richard Navor picked Bueno collectively by temperance of his backing to see more kids’ lives change through schooling. Zaldy volunteered as an ALS educator and instructed on ends of the week, he even had his mom as his student at one point and helped her complete her auxiliary training.
Zaldy additionally helped to establish venture PADYAK in 2017, PADYAK means ‘Pidal Apakan Dunong Yayaman, Asenso’y Kakamtan’, which plans to give bike units for students who couldn’t stand to head out to the class. The undertaking turned out colossal with such a large number of individuals giving new and utilized bike units from everywhere throughout the Philippines notwithstanding getting help from OFW’s abroad. This venture radically expanded participation for students at school for which their school got an ideal participation grant.
“I am exceptionally content with the consequences of the current year’s hunt – with more than 800,000 entries got through our branches, on the web, SMS, and walk-in entries. It’s been stunning to peruse the sections got of the 10 finalists and Zaldy demonstrates to be a commendable champ as his story will rouse endless individuals to push on regardless of life’s troubles, Zaldy embodies the estimable Filipino soul of ascending from your present bind and utilizing that as fuel to have any kind of effect in the lives of others”, said Cebuana Lhuillier President and CEO, Jean Henri Lhuillier.
Presently, Bueno filled in as the head teacher of the English office at the Gumaca National High School. As a child, their family would regularly experience budgetary troubles, Zaldy would enable his mother to wash clothes for their neighbors and would get his every day recompense from offering vegetables he planted to enlarge the family pay. Zaldy promised to buckle down and examine hard so as to improve their life.
A defining moment in Zaldy’s life was when tropical storm Rosing hit in 1995 which totally decimated their home, and they were compelled to remain at the barangay health center. Amid center days, Zaldy and his family needed to move their things in the street to suit the huge of patients. In the wake of moving on from secondary school, Zaldy attempted to get a college education yet needed to quit schooling because of money related limitations. So as to return to college, he needed to maintain two sources of income, including stretches at a tile store and as a sales agent for a local radio station. he completed school a future a 4-year course in 6 years.
Bueno is the fourth victory of the biennial quest following Richardson Navor (2015), Rommel Arellano (2012), and Winston Maxino (2009).
At the point when asked what Bueno will do with the prize cash, he shared that he will utilize it to further improve Project PADYAK by obtaining more bicycle units which more students can use to get the chance to class. He likewise shared that he will utilize a section in the event that it to carry his parents to Singapore for a well-served get-away. Breaking its own record, the Cebuana Lhuillier pursuit got more than 800,000 designations this year, the most entries it has gotten in its ten-year history.
