Outstanding women leaders cited in Kababaihan Festival
>> Thursday, March 16, 2017
BAGUIO
CITY -- Awarding of the 2017 Search for Baguio City’s “outstanding women leaders”
and giving of special recognition to distinguished women highlights
this city’s celebration of National Women’s Month.
The Kababaihan Festival 2017 which opened on
March 1 through a media forum at the City Social Welfare and Development Office
included Women’s Day program here March 8.
OWLs search committee chairperson Patricia
Anne Gallardo disclosed three awardees this year are Jail Senior Insp. April
Rose Ayangwa, Maria Victoria Bugasto and Mary Lou Galiste.
Ayangwa, the jail warden of the female
dorm of the Baguio City Jail, was awarded as advocate for the improvement of
the lives of “women deprived of liberty”
with her initiatives in improving the life of female inmates
through short courses education series, self – help and life skills
seminars and livelihood lectures.
Bugasto, a stage 4 breast cancer survivor and
the president of Minda’s Buddies, a support group for cancer patients was
awarded as advocate of “positive activism and empowerment against cancer” as
she made it her life’s work to inform, educate and raise public awareness on
cancer.
Galiste, executive director of Hotel and
Restaurant Association of Baguio since 2004, was awarded in the field of
tourism.
She has been a vital part to the success of
Baguio’s most – visited tourism events like the annual Baguio Flower Festival
and the Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism (HRT) Week.
Special awards were also be given to eight
women who have excelled in their own fields of endeavor, brought fame, honor
and pride to Baguio and put the city on the world map in 2016.
Recipient of special awards were senior javelin
throw World Masters Champion Erlinda Lavandia; Miss Diamond of the World
Christine Joy Picardal; “Pinopela’ International A Capella champion members
Roxanne Joy Omilda, Ingrid Payaket, Sheevani Brylle Sibayan and Charmaine Irish
Suyo; Miss International Kylie Versoza, and Wushu Sanda World Cup champion
Divine Wally.
An annual awards program since 2006, some 82 women have been recognized as OWLs.
The search had three – tiered selection
process which involved nomination, clarification and a validation of documents
submitted and personal interview of the nominees before a board of judges
composed of past OWLs awardees. -- W.
Hortizuela
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