‘Daday will be with us forever’ – Escalante

November 5, 2023

The the newly-built Cadiz City Evacuation Center inside the Cadiz Viejo National High School (CVNHS) finally bears the name Loreta V. Alacre Evacuation Center (LVAEC) in an unveiling ceremony, in honor of the slain Cadizena OFW who died in a suprise attack of the Hamas rebels in Gaza Strip near Israel on October 6. Undersecretary of Welfare and Foreign Employment at the Department of Migrant Worker Atty. Hans Cacdac was also present.* **(Bilis Cadiz photo)**

“DADAY will be with us forever.”

So stressed by Cadiz City Mayor Salvador Escalante, Jr. as he led the unveiling of a marker for the Loreta (Daday) V. Alacre Evacuation Center (LVAEC) at the Cadiz Viejo National High School (CVNHS) compound.

Daday, 49, and a Sitio Camay-an native in Barangay Cadiz Viejo,Cadiz City, was an overseas Filipino worker (OFW) in Tel Aviv, Italy, who perished when the Hamas rebels in Palestine staged a suprise attack in Gaza Strip on October 6.

She was among the four Filipino fatalities.

Daday devoted working abroad as caregiver from Taiwan to Israel for 19 years.

“LVAEC will always serve as a reminder to all Cadiznons that we have our own ‘heroine’ in the person of Daday,” the mayor enunciated.

“Daday,” Mayor Escalante related, “was an icon of perserverance, persistency, hope and selflessness.”

“She’s really beyond copycat. She always thought of her family’s welfare – neither less nor more,” added by the mayor.

Naming the newly-established evacuation center after her is the city goverment’s way of saying “Thank You, Daday!” for putting Cadiz in the world map as “Home to Great Heroine”, Mayor Escalante added.

“She’s our ‘Bagong Bayani’ thus she deserves this lasting marker within an edifice fit and worthy to be her remembrance to all of us.”

The mayor also thanked the city council for passing a resolution re: LVAEC.

Meanwhile, Daday was buried at the Caduha-an Public Cemetery in Brgy. Caduha-an City this afternoon.

A throng of relatives, friends, classmates, among others bade goodbye to the “newly-proclaimed heroine” of the “City of Whales”.

“She’s finally out of our sight, but her lasting memories highlighted by her unique heorism will forever linger in us (Cadiznons),” said Mayor Escalante.

Likewise, the mayor appealed to other families of OFWs from Cadiz to be “prudent” in spending the income of their loved ones abroad.

“May Daday’s case will serve as an eye opener to all OFWs from Cadiz and their respective families to always value their earnings by being canny enough.”

The city government, on the other hand, will retalk with the Alacre family as to the possible lifetime assistance it could extend – be in employment of any of the seven remaining siblings, scholarship for nieces and nephews, livelihood, among others.

“We will do our our share in helping Daday realizes her ‘dreams’ (even in death) for her beloved family,” the mayor concluded.* (Cadiz City PIO)