2 Filipino women receive award from Dutch King for decades of volunteer work

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THE HAGUE – Two Filipinas were recently given the highest award in The Netherlands for doing volunteer work for poor children in their homeland and compatriots here for more than 20 years.

On Friday, Cecilia Francisco-Lansang from Utrecht and Corazon van Campenhout-Alarcon from Schiedam received special calls from their mayors on the good news: they are both awardees of this year’s Koninklijke onderscheidingen , a yearly recognition for personal and special merits for individuals. It is awarded by the sitting monarch to any Dutch citizens or foreign nationals who have served the Netherlands.

Meanwhile, Van Campenhout-Alarcon, 74, was awarded the Lid van Oranje Nassau for her 33 years as a volunteer and board member of Bayanihan Foundation and as co-founder and board member of WIM.She came to the Netherlands in 1986 to marry her Dutch husband Dirk whom she met in the Philippines while volunteering in Bacolod City.

 

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