Dubai-based Filipino community magazine Illustrado has honored six significant Filipinas from different walks of life in a dazzling ceremony attended by some 250 guests, at The Montgomerie Golf Club on Saturday, the 4th April 2009.

PHOTOCAPTION:  From left to right – Juliet Solas, Sangeeta Kapoor, Isabel Sabado-Warren, Engr. Mary Jane Alvero Al Mahdi, Mariecar Jara-Puyod, Lilian Vargas, Clarita de Quiroz Craig and Lalaine Chu-Benitez.

Now on its second consecutive year, the Illustrado Women of Substance event is meant to celebrate female empowerment and to be a source of inspiration to the local Filipino community. “This is our way of saying thank you More >