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Proyekto SA Araling Panlipunan: Ipinasa Ni: Benedict Gabriel B. Duana Ipinasa Kay: Gng. Mary Joy Decano
Proyekto SA Araling Panlipunan: Ipinasa Ni: Benedict Gabriel B. Duana Ipinasa Kay: Gng. Mary Joy Decano
SA
ARALING PANLIPUNAN
Ipinasa ni:
Ipinasa kay:
She was known as the "Grand Woman of the Revolution" and the
"Mother of Balintawak" for her contributions.
Teresa Ferraris Magbanua (born Teresa Magbanua y Ferraris October
13, 1868 – August 1947), better known as Teresa Magbanua, dubbed as
the "Visayan Joan of Arc" was a Filipino schoolteacher and military
leader. Born in Pototan, Iloilo, Philippines, she retired from education
and became a housewife shortly after her marriage to Alejandro
Balderas, a wealthy landowner from Sara, Iloilo. When the 1896
Philippine Revolution against the Spanish Empire broke out, she
became one of only a few women to join the Panay-based Visayan arm
of the Katipunan, the initially secret revolutionary society head by
Andrés Bonifacio.
Josefa "Pepa" M. Llanes-Escoda (September 20, 1898 – January 6, 1945)
was a prominent civic leader and a social worker. She is well known as a
Filipino advocate of women's suffrage and was founder of the Girl
Scouts of the Philippines.
Together with José Abad Santos and Vicente Lim, she is memorialized
on the Philippines' 1,000-Peso banknote depicting Filipinos who fought
and died resisting the Japanese occupation of the Philippines during the
Second World War at FEU Manila Campus.