After being down on his luck, things are finally looking up for a 60-year-old man whose son is suffering from a terminal disease after the former picked the right number combination in the March 17 Superlotto 6/49 draw and won half of the nearly P38-million jackpot.
A persistent lotto bettor since 1995, the man cried after he received the check for P18.8 million from Jose Ferdinand Rojas II, general manager of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) the other day.
He was one of two winners who guessed the correct number combination of 09-17-28-36-19-33.
The father of two said he used to work abroad but the money he was able to put away has since gone to the treatment of one of his sons who is bedridden and suffers from stage 4 rectal cancer.
His other son, he added, had to stop going to school for lack of money.
The winner also shared that when they went to the PCSO office in Pasay City, he and his son had to walk all the way from Baclaran Church because they did not have enough money for the jeepney fare.