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Alvin Michael Cortez Lucy Peros | All photos courtesy Alvin Cortez ‘Ohana “A happy childhood is perhaps the most fortunate gift in life,” British author and journalist Dorothy Richardson once said. This month’s featured Sakada Offspring, Alvin Michael Cortez shared...
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Benjamin M. Acob Lucy Peros | All photos courtesy Benjamin Acob American author, salesman, and motivational speaker Hilary Hinton “Zig” Ziglar once said “Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have,...
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Anita E. Sagayaga Fernandez Lucy Peros | All photos courtesy Anita Fernandez Can you imagine how a mother and a father feel when they say good bye to their five sons to go to an unknown place not knowing if...
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Roderic “Rod” Antone Lucy Peros | All photos courtesy Rod Antone The majority of the Sakadas who came from the Philippines to work in the sugarcane and pineapple plantations were from the Ilocos regions (northern part of the Philippines—Luzon). In...
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Vanessa Joy Viloria Baldos Domingo Editor’s Note: Many on The Fil-Am Voice staff have connections to Sakadas and the plantations. Although we generally hate to be the subject of the articles/ columns, this is the eighth in a series focusing...
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Carmen Ann Felipe Stuart Lucy Peros | All photos courtesy Carmen Felipe Stuart Most if not all of the Sakadas who came to Hawai‘i to work in the sugar and pineapple plantations had dreams of finding a better life for...
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