About FAHWA
What is FAHWA?
FAHWA was founded in Long Beach California by an organizing committee composed of healthcare workers and union organizers in the healthcare field. FAHWA conducted its first medical mission in September 2010 in Hacienda Luisita, Tarlac, Philippines in coordination with the Alliance of Health Workers (AHW). FAHWA is also known as Filipino-American Health Workers Association (FAHWA).
Right after the super typhoon Haiyan on November 2013, FAHWA in coordination with New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) sent a delegation of RNs and joined the BALSA disaster relief in Western Samar. The New York Chapter was officially established on December 2017 after the September 2017 medical mission in the Philippines and FAHWA Inc was formally registered as a non-profit 501(c)3 public charity. All FAHWA’s officers and board of directors are volunteers.
FAHWA Officers
Nella Pineda-Marcon, RN
President
Marylene Tejones, RN
1st Vice-President
Marion Parkins, RN
2nd Vice-President
Dora Acevedo, RN
Secretary
Maria Katherine Fernandez, RN
Treasurer
Alpha Acapulco
Auditor
Volunteer Organizers
Dean Soto
Respiratory Therapist
Erin Hogan, RN
Linice Zambrano, RN
Heather McCartney, RN
Lorraine Quijano, Pharmacy Assistant
Volunteer Doctors
Dr. Michael Touger, MD
Dr. Edward Colt, MD
What are FAHWA sponsored medical missions volunteers have participated in?
FAHWA has sponsored or supported the medical missions in the following countries:
Philippines (September 2010, 2011 & 2017, November 2018)
The Volunteers
What do our volunteers say about our medical missions?
NELLA PINEDA-MARCON, RN-BC
Mt. Sinai-St. Luke’s
Linice Zambrano, RN
Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center
Blanca Agosto, RN
Bellevue Hospital
Heather May McCartney
RN, Mt. Sinai St. Luke’s
Rico are the best and most fulfilling experiences I’ve had as a nurse.”