By Bernard Ver
Contributor
Grace Leaño Arnaiz a native of Barangay 5, Sarrat, Ilocos Norte, a
registered nurse in Yardley, Pennsylvania and currently the vice-president of
the Philippine Nurses Association (PNA-Pennsylvania) was awarded the Outstanding
Migrant Award for Community Service and Promoting Cultural Diversity in
Pennsylvania, USA.
Grace left the Philippines when she was only 21 years old. She petitioned
her parents and sister Nenita Leaño Andres to USA so they could be together.
She followed her sister Winda Leaño Almazan’s, a registered nurse, footsteps.
She is the youngest in a brood of three; one is a teacher and she and her other
sister are nurses. Grace is the daughter of Cecilia Sambrano and Nonito Leaño,
both teachers by profession.
She studied nursing at Philippine Women’s University in Manila. She has three
kids: Richard Dengah, 35; Michael Dengah 34, with his wife Shery Dengah; and
Fatima Dengah, 33 who helped her in a medical mission in the Philippines.
Grace is also the current president of the Filipino-American Association of
Bucks County Incorporated (FABBCI) in Philadelphia, U.S. of A.
She is a retired nurse yet is still working at nursing homes and for her
organization which gives scholarships to Filipinos who are “bright yet less
fortunate”.
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