By Dodong Ocon
Concordia Payot Vestal, founder and chairman of Concordia Payot Vestal Foundation, Inc. of the Payot - Tima Clan of Malayo Norte, Cortes, recently visited her two foundations for the annual meeting of the board and to grace the fiesta celebrations of her hometown in Cortes.
Vestal an avid advocate for educational growth of the youth in her hometown and whose long stint in the U.S. enabled her to accumulate some resources through hard work as nurse in several hospitals, gained more support not only from her peers but also from other generous Filipinos of Las Vegas. A wife of the former assistant provincial fiscal Virgilio Vestal, she has consistently been shelling out for the
studies of her relatives' children in college and those of other poor and deserving students in the locality. Every year she celebrates her birthday in her hometown making it a Christmas outside December, through distribution of gifts, foods, rice and other goodies to her barrio folks.
With her fellow Boholanos in Las Vegas Vestal with Delia Sanchez Davis, daughter of former Clarin Mayor Luis Sanchez, among a few, has conceived an idea of forming Boholanos of Las Vegas Nevada (BLVN) through a foundation to financially assist poor and deserving Boholano students studying at the Central Visayas State College of Agriculture Fisheries and Trade (CVSCAFT) in Tagbilaran City. She is also a chairman and vice president of the foundation. With all these, more students and faculty are grateful to the foundation which really boosts the morale and integrity of the school.
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