SAN DIEGO (KGTV) – Beginning Sunday, Romel Romero, a Rancho Peñasquitos business owner with ties to areas most impacted by a devastating earthquake in the Philippines, started reaching out, hoping for updates.
Romero is the founder of OJT Connect, a job and internship placement platform for students in the Philippines, including hundreds in hard-hit General Santos City.
On Monday morning, Romero connected over Zoom with Clarissa Villanueva, a university administrator located several hundred miles from General Santos City…