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FilAm women leaders break racism by teaching kids respect, responsibility

Editor’s Notes By Marivir R. Montebon New York – FilAm women here are tripling efforts to rise as leaders as well as handle racism in pragmatic and courageous ways, starting with their own children. Clearly, they’re taking up space – whether at work, school or at home. It is the inevitable as sixty-percent of Filipino […]

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FilAm Merly Barlaan back to UN Office of WFWP; now serves as International VP

By Marivir R. Montebon New York – “Real change starts from the heart,” reckons Merly Barrete Barlaan, FilAm woman leader who spent a hiatus of 12 years from the US to work in home country Philippines facilitating sustainable development and women leadership. Now she is back in the East Coast, rolling her sleeves for her […]

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Women’s Talk Show ‘Women’s World’ Launches on May 24 on Zoom, Sharing Innovations in the Time of Pandemic

By Marivir R. Montebon New York – The Women’s Federation for World Peace and the OSM! Online Magazine launch its joint project ‘Women’s World’, a zoom and coffee time for women worldwide to participate this Memorial weekend. Co-hosted and produced by Merly Barlaan, Dr. Arceli Hernando, and Marivir Montebon, the online show brings up conversations […]

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UN Women Celebrations: Real Struggles and Victories are on the Ground in the Philippines

By Marivir R. Montebon   New York City – In a quaint gathering of Filipino American leaders at the Unification Theological Seminary library in Manhattan, women leaders in civil society, politics, and media share experiences at persistence in actual ground-work as the way to empower women and improve the quality of life at the village […]

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Well-wishers Greet OSM! Magazine as She Turns 4

  We take pride in knowing that the OSM! is one of the few outstanding online magazines that has grown to become a strong link between the regional community and our homeland the Philippines in relaying political, social, and cultural news. It has also evolved with the interests of many of our kababayans in the […]

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Thoughtful Acts: Books for Kids, Reading Glasses for Women

OSM! Events   Vision 20 20 for the Women’s Federation for World Peace-Philippines The New York City 5th Avenue Lions Club recently donated $5000-worth of reading glasses and frames to Merly Barrete Barlaan, president of the Women’s Federation for World Peace-Philippines. 5th Avenue Lions Club president Greg C. Agulan handed the eye pieces on Thursday, […]

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Merly Barrete Barlaan: Leadership from the Heart

By Marivir R. Montebon Most of the time, the petite Merly Christina Barrete Barlaan is thinking and doing things either for her children or newly established school. Whether in the kitchen preparing food for children Hyo Won, Shin Won, Jasmine, and Lily Rose, or in her basement office doing some writing work in Elizabeth, New […]

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