The Global Filipino Magazine TGFM Issue 3 - June 2020

AGNES Pagaduan has spent more than half of her life working with Philippine Airlines. She has been working in the airline company for 29 years now and like any other ordinary employee, she started at the bottom before she achieved her dream position which is the Country Manager. She was assigned overseas in 2015 in Jakarta Indonesia as the country manager. This was her first assignment overseas. A year after, she was reassigned in Dubai, United Arab Emirates with the same position. This time she oversees the operations, logistics, develop new business, and ensure profitability. “Working abroad is a great opportunity for me as not everybody is given that kind of once-in-a-lifetime experience,” she said. Right after graduating in college, she started working in the same airline company. When asked…

ONE of the reasons why Engineer Baby Boy Francisco Boton founded the biggest fraternity of mountain bikers in the UAE is to unite and reach out into the community, especially to those who are in need. To date, the organization has over 1,000 members with 12 different sub-groups. The founder and chairman of the UAE MTB Juemeirah was formally established in 2012, making them the only biking group accredited by the Philippine Consulate General in Dubai and authorized by the Dubai Sports Council. Aside from riding their bicycles off-road or over rough terrain, Boton’s group also promotes and encourages Filipinos to engage in biking and cycling and conducting a series of social and charity works in the host country and in the Philippines. Get to know more Boton personally: Tell…

HE believes that every journey can herald a betoken light of destination. Josh Yugen went to the UAE in 2007 to work as a sales and marketing executive for a trading company but his love for writing prevailed. While working full-time, he worked for big and distinguished magazines and publications such as ITP, Motivate and Prestige Publishing. He became the one of the features writers for En Route Middle East Magazine and eventually became their features editor. Yugen calls it a ‘lucky day’ when he was hired as the first Filipino English editor for Dubai’s DRFE under DTCM or Dubai Retails and Festivals Establishments. While working in the Dubai government, he was also busy building an empire. And while building an empire, he met his first Emirati partner for his…

RIGHT after she graduated BS Hotel & Restaurant Management in the Philippines, she has decided to carve her own destiny in Abu Dhabi, hoping to score a job in the hotel industry. However, after pondering for quite some time, she realized that it wasn’t the path she intended to push through. Irish Joy Perez has worked first as document controller for one of the biggest construction companies in the capital and other jobs before she co-founded and become the CEO of Instorya, a mobile app that aims to help users to easily create photo books. Among of her previous jobs in the UAE include being a personal assistant in the legal department of one of the major holding companies in Abu Dhabi and executive legal assistant to a public listed…

FOR her, to be successful is to be helpful, caring and constructive – and making everyone he touches a little bit better. Riyadh-based Cheryll de Guzman-Mortela is not only working in the four corners of the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre (KFSHRC) as nursing retention officer, she is also actively immersing herself in helping organizations in the Philippines that help the youths and helping her kabayans in the Kingdom through financial literacy training so they won’t go back home empty-handed. Mortela has already spent almost two decades of her life living and working abroad. She also became one of the brains of Saudi Cardiac Nurses Group in Saudi which aims to reduce the burden of cardiovascular diseases in Saudi Arabia. Get to know her more with our Q&A…

HEALTH professionals across the world are receiving the lion’s share of public recognition for their life-saving role in the fight against the spread of COVID-19. Just like any frontliners, UAE-based Red Cloud Decaleng Capuyan is also in the thick of the battle, still hopeful, whatever the cost. The Filipino nurse is serving under the COVID-19 Response Project, which he considers as the highlight of his career, to help prevent the spread of the new coronavirus. “This COVID-19 pandemic has brought us into a new world that will forever affect humankind. We’ve witnessed stories of survival, triumph and self-realization from those recovered patients, ordinary citizens and brave frontliners,” he said. Getting to know more Capuyan: Tell us something about yourself. I am a proud Igorot from the Cordillera Administration Region. I…