| Bicolano Achievers: Inspiring Profiles |
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Fay Lea Patria Mata-Lauraya
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Dr. Fay Lea Patria M. Lauraya is an advocate of participatory approach to development planning and embraces with passion the cause of quality and excellence, relevant and responsive education, access and equity in higher education institutions. She has dedicated her administrative and managerial expertise for the attainment of effectiveness and efficiency in education service delivery in Bicol University.
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Pura Magistrado-Velasco (queue)
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Started as a student activist during her College years in Manila. 1981 - became a migrant worker in Jubail Saudi Arabia. 1984 - got deported for organizing nurses and other hospital workers to boycott a Christmas dinner tendered by the Al-Mutabagani Employment Contractor. Previous to the boycott they were maligned, lambasted by the employment contractor saying that they should be thankful that Saudi Arabia gave them jobs, that they are a bunch of immoral, unethical people etc.
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Edgardo G. Datar
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“There is no rosy road to glory”. This is what Edgardo Datar heeded by as he traversed the peaks and the valleys that life brought him. He was poor growing up. He had no clothes…he borrowed his uncle’s and tied them with strings, he wore bakya…when everyone else wore shoes, he was hungry and resourceful and swallowed his pride when he asked for his classmate’s leftover for lunch, he walked kilometers to school, through rain or shine, he burned the midnight oil, slept hungry did chores in exchange for staying with relatives and going to school. But all these were simply hurdles he had to overcome in his path to succeed….and he succeeded indeed…..
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