HOTLINE FOR ABUSED WOMEN is +632-922-5235 or +632-926-7744
Donations in cash and kind are welcome at the Women’s Crisis Center, 3F ER-Trauma Extension, Annex Building of the East Avenue Medical Center in Diliman , Quezon City

This is a repost from my blog on Women and Domestic Violence. Here in the Philippines, a total of 6,679 cases involving violence against women were recorded in 2007. If you know an abused friend or relative or if you yourself are abused, please be empowered. Read on. Contact numbers to seek help below the entry.

“You provoked me”, the wife-beater smugly said.

“It is still no reason to hit me” protested the wife.

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Filipina is a nursing student from the Philippines who had to take a part-time job just to pursue her studies.

Rushing out of the house
You’ll always say “Hi, Tito
Got to catch the bus
Got lot of things to do.”

Catching a glimpse of you
I can’t help it but to sigh
Knowing the life you’re into
Oh! Filipina you’re caught in a bind.

read the entire poem at http://www.authspot.com/Poetry/Filipina-An-Epitome-of-a-Working-Student.462399

Happy New Year! For my first posting of the year, I am featuring some of my beloved
Filipina friends from the Filipina Women’s Network’s 100 Most Influential Filipina Women in the US. The honor of being selected as an influential Filipina also connotes a lot of responsibility, including mentoring another Filipina woman. A large-scale reunion, PINAY POWER 2012, is scheduled for October 2012.

Since this is a year-long project that involves a lot of logistics, we hope to finish the videos by October 2009, just in time for the next FWN Summit.

Let’s start with this video.

THELMA BOAC
Principal
Silver Creek High School, San Jose, California

When Thelma Boac started her new job as Principal of Silver Creek’s High School, I had the privilege of writing her profile for Manila Bulletin-USA. Click here to read the article.

Continue reading at my RadiantView.com.

I am a first-generation Filipina-American and I’m sure you and I have a lot in common (insert item here). If we weren’t being asked “where are you from?” and “what are you?” we were eating rice every meal and wondering why our classmates didn’t, or we were saying Tagalog words and not realizing that other people don’t know what we mean!

Now that I and my generation are grown and contributing to our society in other ways, I realize how important and how wonderful my heritage is. I’m glad and proud to be a Filipina-American in business through my web development company 10K Webdesign; as well as through business blogging at A Successful Woman.

As a minority in so many ways, I feel like I have a responsibility as well as an honor to occupy that niche. Who else is with me? Are you a Filipina-American businesswoman? Connect with me and let’s see what we can do to educate, empower, and inform ourselves.

Warmly,

Monica S. Flores