Ofelia Manibog Samar-Sy, M.D., FPCP is a Filipino physician in Internal medicine and Cardiology, medical educator, researcher, businesswoman, and socio-civic leader, who is also deeply involved in humanitarian enterprises.
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Along with Jay Jaboneta and Anton Mari H. Lim, she helped create the Yellow Boat of Hope Foundation, and she was instrumental in helping the Yellow Boat of Hope Foundation win the Liberal Project Award by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation in November 2011.
Samar | Guiuan, Eastern Samar | Ofelia Medina | Samar (island) | Ofelia Fox | Llorente, Eastern Samar | Samar Mubarakmand | Samar Hornbill | Ofelia Guilmáin | Marabut, Samar | Legislative districts of Northern Samar | Eastern Samar |
It is the location of Battery Hartshorne, named on November 18, 1902 in honor of Captain Benjamin M. Hartshorne, Jr., 7th U. S. Infantry, who was killed January 2, 1902, in action with insurgents near Lanang, Samar, Philippine Islands during the Philippine–American War.
After settling in its new location, the name Gandara was given to it in commemoration of the former Governor General José de la Gándara y Navarro.
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Established in 1902 and named after the surname of Spanish Governor General José de la Gándara y Navarro, the first captain was Jose Dionesio Mendiola, who died during the year's cholera epidemic and replaced by Jose Piczon on June 15, 1902, serving until June 15, 1903.
Marabut, Samar, a municipality in the province of Samar in the Philippines
Samar and Leyte, two civil provinces in the Visayan group of the Philippines, which include the islands of Balicuatro, Batac, Biliran, Capul, Daram, Homonhon, Leyte, Manicani, Panaon, Samar and several smaller islands, make up the diocese of Calbayog, a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Manila.