Feeding and Nutrition

Solita Magahum Wakefield

Senior Research Officer at the International Monetary Fund since 1991. Consultant at the World Bank. Bachelor's degree and a master's degree in Economics from Maryknoll College, Philippines and Long Island University, New York, respectively. Doctoral candidate at New York University and George Mason University. Member of Omicron Delta Epsilon (Economics Honor Society, New York chapter).

Estela Torres Sanidad

Official at World Bank. Married to Mario Prado Sanidad. They have three children.

Livelihood

Dennis Ocampo

Gift Giving

Evangeline Ganuelas

World Bank retiree now in the labor union environment. Husband Ernie works with the Philippine DND. They have a son.

Education

Lito Ilagan, Scholarship

Retired. Manager, World Bank. Born in San Pablo City, Philippines. College - Ateneo de Manila University; Work experience include Xavier School, IBM Philippines, Computer Information Systems, Inc.
FTH volunteer since inception in 1993. Served as FTH overerall Chairperson in 2002-2003. Active member of the Filipino community in Kona, Hawaii having served as Vice-President of the Filipino Organization of Kona (2004-2008). Currently, Chair of the Parish Pastoral Council and the Global Solidarity Ministry of St. Michael's Church in Kona. Married to Sol Ilagan one of the original incorporators of FTH.

Calamity and Medical Emergency Assistance

Mila Nazal

Senior Administrative Assistant, International Monetary Fund. She has three children and six grandchildren. Enjoys cooking, traveling, and taking care of grandchildren.

Tessie Alarcon

See Board of Directors

Infrastructure (Classroom Building and Water Systems)

Pablito Alarcon

Pablito graduated from the Mapua Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science Civil Engineer He took graduate studies at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He served as a commissioned officer in the Philippine Coast and Geodetic Survey, navigating a survey ship throughout the Philippines. He worked as a professional engineer with the Washington D.C. Dept of Public Works, Water, and Sewer Utility Administration where he retired after 22 years of service. He subsequently formed a real estate company and became a realtor/broker helping hundreds of Filipino families own their homes in the metropolitan Washington, D.C. area. Active in the community, he served as President of the Philippine Association of Metropolitan Washington Engineers and chairman of its scholarship committee where he established an endowment fund to help funds students to become engineers. He is a current member of the Philippine American Chamber of Commerce and a member of the Philippine American Foundation for Charities. Together with his wife Tessie, he co-founded Feed the Hungry. He has assumed responsibilities for overseeing and monitoring the completion of classroom construction. Close to 56 classrooms throughout the Philippines have been built. Seven are under construction, six are to be constructed and one is under study. Pablito was inducted into the Asian Academy Hall of Fame on November, 2005 in Athens, Greece.

Lyta Sese

Lyta is a graduate of the University of Santo Tomas College of Architecture. She recently retired from Kaiser Permanente after 20 years managing the design and construction of medical facilities in the mid-Atlantic states region. She is past president of the Philippine Arts, Letter and Media and the Philippine Council of Arts and Architecture. Married, with five children and ten grandchildren, she resides in Bethesda, Maryland. She loves to garden, paint and read.