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Maligayang Bati Lualhati! 🎂

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Happy Birthday Nati! December 18. Early 90s. Vallejo, California. Birthday flowers for Mom. Thank you for everything! 💛 Explore Filipino American heritage, culture, and stories! Join our Fil-Am community to connect, comment, celebrate, and share experiences. Mabuhay! 📌 Follow PinoyBuilt Instagram 👍 Like PinoyBuilt Facebook ✍️ Follow PinoyBuilt Blog 📺 Follow PinoyBuilt YouTube 🎓 Interested in helping us create content? Apply as a college intern and join our team! #PinoyPride #PinoyCommunity #FilAm #FilipinoAmerican #PilipinoAmerican #kaibigan
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Location: Vallejo, CA, USA
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Filipina in 1960s NYC: How ChatGPT Helped Me Find My Mom’s Exact Spot on 42nd Street

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New York City • July 2025. Tracing My Pinay Mom's Footsteps in 1960s Manhattan — With a Little Help from AI. filipina nurse 1960s new york, lualhati reyes perseveranda, 42nd street manhattan, exchange visitor program, fil-am heritage, chatgpt ai history. New York City • July 2025 Tracing My Pinay Mom's Footsteps in 1960s Manhattan — With a Little Help from AI A vintage photograph. A street sign. A Whelan's Drug Store. Sixty years later, AI helped me find the exact corner where my Filipina mother stood on 42nd Street — and what she was part of. Photo courtesy of Lualhati "Nati" Reyes-Perseveranda. East 42nd Street, Manhattan, New York City — circa 1960–1962. There is a photograph of my mother I have carried in my memory for decades. She is young — early 20s, radiant, dressed beautifully — standing on a busy American sidewalk. She is everything I would not meet until years later: Nati, before she became Nanay. The photo wa...
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Location: 476 5th Ave, New York, NY 10018, USA
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Kaiser Checkup Done: January28

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Bad news and good news.
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Location: 975 Sereno Dr, Vallejo, CA 94589, USA
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How to move as a Nurse: United Kingdom > USA

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How to move as a Nurse from the UK to the US. UK to America. Filipino UK / USA Nurse Hello! Kumusta! Please drop us a comment below. Help us grow Pinoybuilt to be the number one Filipino-American online community in California, if not the USA. 🇺🇸 Please click this to follow www.pinoybuilt.com . Thank you! Maraming salamat po kabayan. 🇵🇭 
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ICE Whistleblower: Detainees Undergo Alarming Number Of Hysterectomies

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This is cruel to women. This is a horrific crime. https://t.co/fTc9HasAZ1 — FWN (@filipinawomen) September 15, 2020 Remember that coerced hysterectomies were a central part of US policy long before ICE was created. Forced sterilization and eugenics programs were used as a means of controlling “undesirable” populations. Hitler studied and based Nazi race science on American practices. Remember that coerced hysterectomies were a central part of US policy long before ICE was created. Forced sterilization and eugenics programs were used as a means of controlling “undesirable” populations. Hitler studied and based Nazi race science on American practices. 🧵 pic.twitter.com/iMthFrBamH — ribka #rentstrike (@redpomgranat) September 15, 2020 A former nurse at the Irwin County Detention Center says detainees were subjected to “jarring medical neglect” and an alarmingly high rate of hysterectomies, often without proper informed consent. Register to vote at www.vote.gov . Already regist...
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Suspended nurses in CA decry lack of protective equipment

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Filipina nurse Allison Mayol was interviewed by Balitang America. These Filipina nurses' concerns were heightened after a nurse on their floor, which handles #COVID19 cases, tested positive for the virus. On the one-year anniversary of her working at Providence St. John’s in Santa Monica, Allison Mayol, 23, tells FOX 11 the hospital suspended her and two of her nurse colleagues. “We want to take care of our patients especially right now in this dire time but we want to make sure we’re doing it safely,” Mayol said.-- FoxLA.com
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Location: 2121 Santa Monica Blvd 1st Floor, Santa Monica, CA 90404, USA
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Filipino nurse friends survive their own battles against coronavirus

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Praying for my many family & friends in healthcare! My cousin, a nurse in New Jersey, already posted last week or earlier that she lost one of her colleagues to COVID-19.  🙏🏽 Hoping and praying that a working vaccine gets developed and approved ASAP. Coronavirus: WHO marks 100 days since China alerted to first COVID-19 cases The total number of global cases has surpassed 1.5 million, including more than 89,000 fatalities. Around 340,000 patients are reported to have recovered. Latest updates from around the world: 10% of US workforce now unemployed  UK Prime Minister’s condition “improving” after third night in intensive care Number of cases in Spain surpass 150,000 mark Sub-Saharan Africa to fall into recession for the first time in 25 years, the World Bank said in new forecast  Australia to evacuate stranded citizens in Peru, South Africa and Argentina Brazil reports largest daily increase in cases BREAKING: 6.6 million Americans filed fo...
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Location: Vallejo, CA, USA
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It's World Health Day: Thank your favorite nurse!

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My mom, 1st on the left, and Tita Myrna (2nd from right) in Illinois Masonic Hospital. Chicago, IL. 1978 It’s World Health Day! Today, we celebrate the work of nurses & midwives by showing our appreciation for their bravery, courage & resolve in the global #COVID19 response. Tell us who your favourite nurse or midwife is . Of course, my mom is my favorite nurse. It’s #WorldHealthDay ! Today, we celebrate the work of nurses & midwives by showing our appreciation for their bravery, courage & resolve in the global #COVID19 response. Tell us who your favourite nurse or midwife is 💐. #SupportNursesAndMidwives ➡️ https://t.co/ZFkbyJFmG0 pic.twitter.com/02Skex6uW8 — World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) April 6, 2020 One in 8 nurses works in a country other than where they were born or trained. M y mom was recruited fresh out or nursing school to work in the USA.  From 1960 to 1962, she worked in Jersey City, NJ and Chicago, IL.  My dad...
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Meet the Champion for Filipino Nurses

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Balitang America
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