Most Outstanding Migrant in Pennsylvania is from Ilocos Norte

By Bernard Ver

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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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