Tag: Philippines
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Close to 1,000 residents of Culion sanitarium in Palawan, Philippines participated in the 1937 plebiscite that resulted in women gaining the right of suffrage in the Philippines. Despite these women being relegated to a colony which others previously called “Island of No Return”, they were not, however, left disenfranchised in this democratic process. Years before…
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Anna is author of a book titled, “Ocho Ocho: My Childhood In War-torn Asia” published in 2012, which talks about her childhood memories, the years the Bucher family spent in China and the Philippines. In her prefatory message, she notes that her then five-year-old granddaughter Mattea asked her to share a story about her childhood…