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Cadiz gives hero’s sendoff to caregiver killed in Israel

The Loreta V. Alacre Evacuation Center (LVAEC) marker was unveiled on Sunday.*Bilis Cadiz photo

Cadiz City in Negros Occidental gave Loreta “Daday” Villarin Alacre, the 49-year-old caregiver who was killed in an attack by Hamas militants in Israel, a hero’s sendoff on Sunday, November 5.

Mayor Salvador Escalante and the Alacre family unveiled the marker at the Loreta V. Alacre Evacuation Center (LVAEC) in the compound of her alma mater, Cadiz Viejo National High School, Sunday morning, prior to her funeral in the afternoon.

Alacre of Sitio Camay-an, Barangay Cadiz Viejo, Cadiz City, was killed in a Hamas attack while she was on the way to her employer’s home on October 7.

She had been an overseas Filipino worker in Taiwan and Israel for 19 years and the breadwinner of her family.

“Daday will be with us forever,” the mayor said at the unveiling rites.

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

“Daday was an icon of perseverance, persistency, hope and selflessness…She always thought of her family’s welfare,” the mayor added.

Naming the newly built evacuation center after her is the city government’s way of saying “Thank you, Daday” for putting Cadiz in the world map as “home to a great heroine”, Escalante said.

“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”, Escalante, said as he thanked the city council for naming the evacuation center in Alacre’s honor.

Undersecretary Hans Leo Cacdac, Department of Migrant Workers officer-in-charge, who joined the funeral, said government has provided aid to Alacre’s family and will continue to assist with the schooling of her nephews and nieces whom she was sending to school.

Alacre was buried at the Caduha-an Public Cemetery in Brgy. Caduha-an, Cadiz City, Sunday afternoon after a funeral mass at the St. Peregrine Parish Church.

The city government will discuss possible employment or livelihoods for Alacre’s kin after the funeral, Escalante said.

“We will do our share in helping Daday realize her ‘dreams’ (even in death) for her beloved family,” Escalante said.*

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