JAMBY MADRIGAL PROFILE!

Born in 26 April 1958 Maria Ana Consuelo Abad Santos Madrigal Valade kung siya ay tawagin . She is currently a Senator. She was elected Senator in the 2004 election.
Jamby Madrigal was born on 26 April 1958 in Manila to Antonio and Amanda Madrigal. She is the granddaughter of the former Supreme Court Chief Justice Jose Abad Santos of San Fernando, Pampanga. Her granduncle – pre-Commonwealth Assemblyman Pedro Abad Santos was the father and founder of the Socialist Party of the Philippines. The Abad Santos brothers were rich landowners who gave up their land to live with the tenants in their fight for social justice.

Her paternal grandfather was former Senator Vicente Madrigal of Ligao, Albay, a businessman, an industrialist, and one of the Philippine Republic’s elected senator in 1949. Her aunt, former Senator Pacita Madrigal-Gonzales was a senator during the Quezon and Magsaysay administrations and was the first administrator of the Social Welfare Administration, that was later named as Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).
Her foundations strive to uplift popular awareness of the plight of street children, and to raise funds for various centers that award school scholarships to the children of the poor. The Books-for-the-Barangay Foundation Inc. (BBFI) is the lead partner of U.S-based “Books for the Barrios” organization, which has shipped more than P2.5 billion worth of books for Philippine public elementary and high schools. The Abad Santos Madrigal Foundation (ASMF) Inc. works to empower women and children through relevant and accessible livelihood programs. Its flagship project, the Basic Reflexology Training Program (BRTP) has trained more than 5,000 reflexology therapists nationwide. Program graduates are accredited by the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA).
She is currently the Chairperson of the Senate Committee on Youth, Women and Family Relations, Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, Committee on Peace, Unification and Reconciliation, as well as the Committee on Cultural Communities. She has filed bills that are responsive to the needs of women and the youth in the areas of education, juvenile justice, gender equality, empowerment, anti-trafficking and anti- pornography. She has also authored bills on the protection of the indigenous peoples and their ancestral domain as well as the protection and conservation of the environment.

In addition, she also heads other Senate oversight committees such as the Congressional Oversight Committee on the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act, Congressional Oversight Committee on the Clean Water Act, Joint Congressional Oversight Committee on the Clean Air Act, and the Joint Congressional Oversight Committee on the Chain Saw Act.

Moreover, she has filed bills to advance nationalist economics, such as the repeal of the Downstream Oil Industry Deregulation Act of 1998, as well as measures seeking to place LPG under price control and for the recovery of PETRON and Malampaya.

Concerned about the protection of the Philippines' patrimony, she recently filed a bill repealing RA 7942, the "Mining Act of 1995" and a bill for the imposition of a total log ban. Both bills aim to protect the last remaining natural resources from wholesale plunder.

In an opposition protest on 14 October 2005, she was one of the political leaders who were subjected to the Manila Police water cannons while attending an indignation rally that was in response to the policies mandated by the Arroyo administration like Executive Order (EO) 464.

In addition in 31 July 2009 she announced to run as the president of the philippine republic!

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