DEPARTMENT of Tourism (DOT) Secretary Christina Garcia-Frasco was honored and grateful to receive the Gawad Pilipino Babae Ka Award for Public Service.
“As we gather to celebrate the accomplishments of Filipino women, we must also reflect on the barriers and the challenges that women have had to face in the generations that women have contributed to the building of our nation.”
“Being a mother of 4 young children, I fully understand the challenges that women face every day. This, as they try to be dutiful to their responsibilities, as they try to pursue their passions and their respective careers and advocacies, all while being daughters, sisters, wives, mothers. Truly it is the innate compassion, perseverance, dedication, and determination of women that allow for the fabric of the Filipino society to be strong but also gracious, aggressive but also kind, successful but also cognizant, of everything else that needs to be done to truly do the work of nation-building,” Secretary Christina Garcia-Frasco, Department of Tourism (DOT) stated.
The DOT Chief stressed that in Tourism Department they have endeavored to put the Filipino tourism workforce at the forefront of everything that they are trying to do for the country.
According to Frasco, DOT trained over 127,000 tourism Filipino workers in the Filipino Brand of Service Excellence (over 70% of which are women) with the hopes of opening up opportunities for livelihood and employment for our fellow Filipinos, strengthening the foundation of the tourism industry.
“I accept this award with humility and gratitude, as well as joy as I know that I share this with truly exceptional and phenomenal women who have been nothing less than excellent in their field while always applying oneself with compassion, love and humanity.”
“I dedicate this award to my family who have taken this journey with me — with all its highs and lows — they have been the wind beneath my wings,” Sec. Frasco said.
