The Global Filipino Magazine TGFM Issue 2 - May 2020

I ALWAYS believe that arriving at one goal is the starting point of another Words I’ve written here will not suffice to thank all the individuals and groups who have supported and trusted The Global Filipino Magazine which aims to champion the greatness of the Filipinos across the globe through quality writing and give inspiration to those people who need their spirits to be uplifted. To our readers, we’ve added five more feature stories under The Global Filipino | The Story of Our Success so many inspiring stories of Global Filipinos will be covered and give inspiration to the growing number of our readers in and outside the Middle East. I would also like to thank the Philippine Ambassador to the UAE Hjayceelyn M. Quintana, thank you Amba for allowing…

He describes himself as a happy-go-lucky guy who knows his limitations while being ‘well rounded.’ 30-year-old Business Development Executive Mark Joseph Guevarra has been working with Travelwings for years now. It’s a Dubai-based tourism brand online, and Mark, as his primary duty, is tasked to grow their business up to its potential. Guevarra, a Batangueno, considers being a business developer to be the highlight of his career in the host country. He also considers himself as a ‘lover of challenges.’ Before venturing in the desert of UAE, he was part of a BPO company in the Philippines, taking unending calls for over six months until he was finally promoted in the recruitment department where he was tasked to source and conduct interviews of new customer service representatives. A Psychology graduate,…

Filipino lawyer Atty. Barney Almazar is just one of the foot soldiers of the Constitution abroad. Aside from being a great lawyer, he is also actively holding and providing free legal aid to the Filipino community through the Philippine Consulate General in Dubai. The director of the Gulf Law has been in the Middle East for seven years now, but the amount of people he had helped in the past is immense. Be it problems on salaries, debt, bouncing cheques, divorce and annulment and amnesty issues, Almazar is always the trusted lawyer of Filipinos in the country. One of his greatest achievements recently was assisting a Filipino mother and her three children to waive a total of AED 712,400 in overstaying fines. The amount in peso that he had waived…

If there’s one phrase that can perfectly describe her, it would be ‘a global achiever and a modern-day hero.’ Vagelyn Tumbaga-Pacio, only 39-years-old, has become an icon of womanhood, a trailblazing lady of charity, community patroness and a world-class hotelier. From being a humble farm girl, Pacio is now the Human Resources Director of Dusit Thani Dubai hotel, a five-star luxury hotel in the emirate. She rose from the rank of human resource secretary to the youngest general manager in the Middle East of a four-star hotel in UAE at the age of 28. Among her achievements include being listed on the 8 Women Of Substance 2018, making her the first Filipina and Asian awardee to grace the award. Just recently, she was also recognized as one of the 100…

Travelling around different parts of the world makes him a storyteller. Charles Rollon, or known as dboywhogotlucky on Instagram, has been working as a supervisor for an airline company based in Dubai for years now, and through this, he is able to voyage places he has never set foot before to embrace new culture. Aside from travelling across the globe, he is also passionate about vlogging, cameras and gadgets, thus making him a popular ‘Instagrammer’. So far, Rollon has over 131,000 followers on Instagram, making him one of the most followed Filipinos in the UAE on the image-sharing app. “My vlogging has brought me to many different places. Most importantly, through my vlogs I have met a lot of Filipinos in the Middle East of different walks of life. To…

- RN; RM; BSN; MBA She believes that success isn’t just about what accomplishes in life, it’s what she inspires. Amy Magracia-Miranda, a registered nurse, has been fulfilling his late mom’s dream by being a successful medical practitioner by taking care of mothers and children. Currently, the seasoned nurse is working as a nurse consultant in a private company in Sharjah for a project to open a new maternity and children’s hospital. Prior to becoming successful in his career, Miranda has to endure obstacles she had never thought of overcoming along the way. Being the youngest among six siblings and belonging to a broken family, she recalled those dark days where she described life as ‘very hard’. Miranda being sickly, grew up shy and timid because of their life situation.…