Gracia Divina Valera-Jaramillo

Erlinda Sayson Limcaco
BSN, RN,

Linda's voluntary services to our community was not given enough
attention, and yet, she just continue to give and give. One of her most
recent accomplishment was her rescue of a "Filipina battered housewife" in
Arizona in March 2008.

Linda was on her way home from Iloilo where she enrolled her daughter
Kristina in the college of Nursing at the Saint Paul's University. While falling
in line at NAIA, she overheard a young filipina named Maricel sharing her
sad experiences from the hands of her abusive African American husband
of less than a year. Linda told Maricel that her life is in danger, so, she told
her that, if she is abused by her husband again, to call her, and she will
send her an airplane ticket and move with family in New Jersey.

It did not take long when Linda received a frantic call from Maricel in the middle of the night
crying. She told Linda that she cannot take it any more. Linda told Maricel to decide now, but,
Maricel's reply was "I am she was scared."

Maricel made a decision to move out of their house and leave her husband. She called a taxi
cab. She put her 2 pieces of luggage with a plan to move with a friend, but, when the Taxi Cab
driver rung the door bell, her husband heard it, and husband took her to the second floor and
kept her prisoner inside the computer room. The Cab Driver call the Arizona Police Emergency
and reported what he saw and, when the Police arrived, Maricel's husband refused to open the
door, and, the Police forced open the garage window, and let Maricel out of the garage window,
and, they arrested the husband, and, confiscated the 9MM pistol with 20 rounds of live
ammunition. Maricel, went to the airport and used the e-ticket and Linda picked her up at the
Philadelphia International Airport. Maricel lived with the family and she is now employed by
WalMart, and beginning to put her life together, and, at the same time helping her mother, a
brother and three sisters. Maricel lives with the family free of charge.

Membership to Organizations

*   President, International Network of Filipinos Overseas Inc., 2007 to the present
*   Chairman and CEO, Philippine Nurses Association of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, 2006 -
2008
*   Member, Board of Directors, Philippine Independence Day Celebration Committee Inc., New
York, 2008 - 2010
*   Vice Chair, National Federation of Filipino American Associations (NaFFAA) for the State of New
Jersey. 2008 - 2010
*   Treasurer, Filipino Executive Council of Greater Philadelphia Inc. 2004 - 2006
*   Vice President, Philippine Folk Art Society of Pennsylvania, 2004 to the present
*   Volunteer, Philippine American Mission Foundation of Michigan Inc. - Medical Missions to
Guimaras and Iloilo
*   Volunteer, Association of Philippine Physicians of America (APPA) - Medical Mission, Davao
*   Volunteer, United Way of New Jersey
*   Volunteer, Filipino Executive Council of Greater Philadelphia Inc., - Medical Missions, North
Philadelphia
*   Organizer, Philippine Independence Day Parade, New York and Philadelphia
*   Volunteer, Feed the Hungry of Metro Washington, D.C. , 2007
*   Delegate/organizer, President George W. Bush State Visit to the Philippines, Oct. 2003
*   Donor/volunteer, Pearl S. Buck International, Philippines
*   Actress/donor, Vagina Monologue Show, New Jersey 2009
*   Actress/donor, Vagina Monologue show, New York, 2009
*   Delegate, NaFFAA National Conferences
** 2004 - Chicago
** 2006 - Hawaii
** 2008 - Seattle, Washington

Citations and Awards

* 100 most inflluential women of America, presented by the FWN
*   Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Medal Award, Camden County, New Jersey Human Relations
Commission
*   Citations from Governor Jon Corzine, New Jersey
*   Citations from the Camden County Board of Chosen Freeholders
*   Citation from the Voorhees Mayor John Mignona

Linda is married to Antonio Limcaco, and they reside in 52 Hemlock Drive, Balckwood, New Jersey.

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Erlinda Limcaco