Jamby Madrigal
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2004–incumbent |
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1992–1998 |
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| Political Party: | Koalisyon ng Nagkakaisang Pilipino (2004-present) |
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| Born: | April 26, 1958 Manila |
| Spouse: | Jean Claude Dudoignon Valade |
Maria Ana Consuelo Abad Santos Madrigal Valade (born April 26, 1958) is a politician in the Philippines. She is currently a Senator. She was elected Senator in the 2004 election.
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[edit] Early life and career
Jamby Madrigal was born on April 26, 1958 in Manila to Antonio and Amanda Madrigal. She is the granddaughter of the former Supreme Court Chief Justice Jose Abad Santos of San Fernando, Pampanga. Her granduncle – pre-Commonwealth Assemblyman Pedro Abad Santos – founded the Socialist Party of the Philippines. The Abad Santos brothers were rich landowners who gave up their land to live with the tenants in their fight for social justice.
Her paternal grandfather was Senator Vicente Madrigal of Ligao, Albay, one of the Philippine Republic’s elected senator in 1949. Her aunt, Senator Pacita Madrigal-Gonzales was a senator during the Quezon and Magsaysay administrations and was the first administrator of the Social Welfare Administration, the predecessor of today’s Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).
It was only a matter of time before she followed the path to public service, all the more inspired by her role models : Winston Churchill, born an English nobleman who led Britain during World War II; Princess Diana, the British royal who reached out to the masses, and the Blessed Mother Theresa. Over the years, she set up foundations to facilitate her desire to alleviate poverty and want among her people.[1]
[edit] Personal life
Her foundations strive to heighten popular awareness of the plight of street children, and to raise funds for various centers that award school scholarships to the children of the poor. The Books-for-the-Barangay Foundation Inc. (BBFI) is the lead partner of U.S-based “Books for the Barrios” organization, which has shipped more than P2.5 billion worth of books for Philippine public elementary and high schools. The Abad Santos Madrigal Foundation (ASMF) Inc. works to empower women and children through relevant and accessible livelihood programs. Its flagship project, the Basic Reflexology Training Program (BRTP) has trained more than 5,000 reflexology therapists nationwide. Program graduates are accredited by the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA).
While championing children’s rights, she also took some time for her own champion, Frenchman Eric Jean Claude Dudoignon Valade. They were married last December 7, 2002 in the Calatagan, Batangas farm estate of her aunt Doña Chito Madrigal-Collantes. After more than three years of blossoming friendship, having met thru the French language which they both adore, she and Eric exchanged marital vows in front of more than 700 guests, which included family, friends and foreign guests who arrived from eight countries to attend the beautiful Filipino-European country wedding said in Latin accompanied by strains of classical music.[2]
[edit] Government service
In October 1999 President Estrada created the Office of the Presidential Adviser for Children’s Affairs. He appointed her to head this office which gives the children of the poor access to the President’s highest councils. Under her activist management, the office ran President Estrada’s pro-poor and pro-children agenda.
She organized the First National Summit for Children in Malacañang on October 26, 2000 where government agencies, local government units, industry leaders and non-government organizations signed a declaration of commitment upholding Child 21 – a framework on which to anchor all action plans and strategies relating to children. This declaration was a first in Southeast Asia – a fitting prelude to the United Nations’ World Declaration on the Survival, Protection and Development of Children, which was adopted during the World Summit for Children on September 30, 1990.
She travels nationwide, while coordinating the agency’s feeding and educational programs, confirmed her commitment to the cause of poor Filipino children. She became especially concerned over the fate of teachers and school children who were taken hostage by the Abu Sayyaf terrorists in 2001. After consultation with the victims themselves, she sought the help of clinical psychologists from Ateneo de Manila and Ateneo de Zamboanga, who soothed the trauma victims and trained their parents in stress management.
While the nation was enjoying the 2003 Christmas holidays, she was already preparing for a busy 2004. In addition to her work for her numerous foundations, she has become spokesperson for the youth-based Kontra Pulitika Movement (KPM) – which champions education, protection of the environment and economic empowerment thru livelihood programs for every citizen.
While busy with her provincial visits as KPM spokesperson, she has found the time to act in a movie on the life of Luis Taruc, the Kapampangan founder of the Hukbo ng Bayan Laban sa mga Hapon (Hukbalahap). Ka Luis was the protégé of her grandfathers, the Abad Santos brothers. In the film, ‘Anak Pawis’, she portrays her grandmother, the beautiful Amanda Teopaco.
She believes in Edmund Burke’s aphorism.
[edit] Political career
She is currently the Chairperson of the Senate Committee on Youth, Women and Family Relations as well as the Committee on Cultural Communities. She has filed bills that are responsive to the needs of women and the youth in the areas of education, juvenile justice, gender equality, empowerment, anti-trafficking and anti- pornography. She has also authored bills on the protection of the indigenous peoples and their ancestral domain as well as the protection and conservation of the environment.
Moreover, she has filed bills to advance nationalist economics, such as the repeal of the Downstream Oil Industry Deregulation Act of 1998, as well as measures seeking to place LPG under price control and for the recovery of PETRON and Malampaya.
Concerned about the protection of the Philippines' patrimony, she recently filed a bill repealing RA 7942, the "Mining Act of 1995" and a bill for the imposition of a total log ban. Both bills aim to protect the last remaining natural resources from wholesale plunder.
In an opposition protest, she was on of the political leaders who were subjected to the Manila Police water cannons while attending a religious procession on October 14, 2005.[3]
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