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The Philippine Star|September 15, 2024
The birth anniversary of Josefa LlanesEscoda, the civic leader and World War 2 heroine after whom the shoal that is subject of recent tensions between Filipino and Chinese sailors was named, has been declared a local holiday.
- - Alexis Romero

Proclamation 680, signed by Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin by the authority of President Marcos, declared Sept. 20 a special non-working day in Dingras town in Ilocos Norte to allow its residents to commemorate the birth of Escoda, who was born in 1898.

Escoda, founder of the Girl Scouts of the Philippines and an advocate of education and women's rights, provided various forms of support to Filipino prisoners during the second world war.

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