Palina Iezel D.

BS SOC WK 2

3:00-4:00 TTHS July 7 2011

1) How would you describe Escoda as a woman and as a social worker by training and work experience? I describe JosefaLlanes Escoda as a incredible woman because she never aims to stay at home just like other typical women before. At the early age Escoda assumed the role expected of the eldest child. She becomes her young sibling guide and supporter and this role might have prepared for the various leadership role she assumed later. As a social worker Escoda never stop helping those people that is in need. She also organized an activity by the help of those volunteers and organization to catch up those problems arising in our community. Mrs. Escoda remembered by his acquaintance as a lithesome woman who wore wooden shoes and often traveled with bandana (scarf).when she was captured by the Japanese she never stop helping those soldiers in death march. 2) What did she pioneer? Josefa Llanes Escoda is a pioneer of Girls Scout of the Philippines but before that she was sponsored by Boys Scout of the Philippines for intensive training in girls scouting. She become a secretary of the American Red Cross and initiated the establishment of provincial branches to help the needy families in job placement, sanitation and cleanliness, and health education. The Leonard Wood Memorial also invited her to be its fundraiser and organizer of local drives for leprosy prevention. Mrs. Escoda served the National Federation of Womans Club (NFWC) and the Girls Scout of the Philippines ( GSP). In NFWC she works as incorporator, assistant treasurer, executive secretary and president. Together with the members of NFWCs and Volunteer Social Aid Committee (VSAC), she mobilized volunteer into action by soliciting donations, sewing clothes for prisoners, and attending to request for contact with some prisoners or relatives. She also mobilized for Nursery Classes, Adult Literacy, Club extension workers, and campaign for womans suffrage. 3) What are her missions before and after the war? Josefa Llanes Escoda mission is to help people and have an equal treatment in our community. Just before the World War 2, Escoda went to USA to undergo intensively training in girl scouting. Escoda was captured by the Japanese army during the Japanese occupation. She manage to obtain a list of camp internees; and for them, she smuggled food, clothing, medicines, letters, and other personal needs to help her inmates. NFWC put up a restaurant called Dalagang Bukid where the students works and earned for their upkeep. Proceeds of the business went to providing food and medicine for prisoners in concentration camps. Students were also sent on mission on message, hidden in the seams of their dresses, for filipino soldiers. Escoda career as a social worker and activist continued even inside the prison where she shared food and cheered fellow inmates. The most Escoda done in her life is having helped with little that she could do to save the lives of the surrendered soldier of Bataan and Corregidor.

4) Why is she a heroine of World War 2 in the Philippines? She becomes a heroine of World War 2 in the Philippines because she successfully attempts to help the concentration camp prisoner and for undertaking intelligent work during the Japanese colonization. She manage to obtain a list of camp internees; and for them, she smuggled food, clothing, medicines, letters, and other personal needs. From 1941-1945, she established and kept contact with the internees in the camp like the University of Sto. Tomas in manila, Capaz in Tarlac, Los Ba ios College in Laguna,Bongabon and Cabanatuan in Nueva Ecija. Mrs. Escoda career as a social worker and activist continued even inside the prison where she shared food and cheered fellow inmates. She was then still serving as President of the NFWC and as national executive of the GSP. The annals of Armed Forces of the Philippines pay tributes to Mrs. Escoda, with a Josefa Llanes Escoda Legionnaire award of Honor. 5) How does a graceful nation remember her today? Mrs. Escoda, also known Manang Pepa, only typified the modern Filipina at her best and the true social worker to the end. In 1951, she received a posthumous diploma of honor in recognition of her signal achievements from the Philippine Alumna Normal College. Her alma mater also chose her as its Distinguished Alumna in the field of social service during its golden jubilee celebration. In recognition of her invaluable contribution to humanitarian, efforts, the GSP established an Escoda Memorial Fund for the promotion of the Girls Scout movement for world peace and goodwill. There are many more tell-tale signs of her spirits continuing presence. In California Street from Taft Avenue to Dart Street be named after her name (Manila Mun. Ord. No.4619, September 19, 1962) Schools, College and Universities observe Josefa Llanes Escoda day on September 20 1959, upon President Carlos p. Garcia declaration. The nation commemorate her in the P1, 000.00 peso bill (CB, 1991).