Background
Evangelina R. Estrada was born in Murcia,Tarlac, now Concepcion, Tarlac on June 16, 1920 to Doctor Salvador Estrada and Demetria Reynada.
Evangelina R. Estrada was born in Murcia,Tarlac, now Concepcion, Tarlac on June 16, 1920 to Doctor Salvador Estrada and Demetria Reynada.
She earned her Bachelor of Science in Education major in Home Economics from the University of the Philippines in 1940.
1965–1972). Serving in Senate during the presidency of Ferdinand Marcos (Nationalist), she was part of a major transformation in Philippine domestic and foreign policies. She also took up post graduate studies in social work. Kalaw was elected senator in 1965 under the Nacionalista Party.
She would later move to the Liberal Party because of abuses committed by Marcos and his cohorts, especially after the 1969 elections where Marcos was re-elected to the presidency.
During this era of revising and strengthening the government, there was a major rise in student activism—primarily the activism was surged by the presence of governmental corruption and the United States presence and dictation in the Philippines. Coinciding with this rise of activism, was the rise of violence and communist ideology.
On August 21, 1971, a bomb exploded at a Liberal Party rally at Plaza Miranda injuring several officials, including Senator Estrada-Kalaw. From this point, the Senator was part of a major effort to protest the newly pronounced dictatorship of Marcos, who in 1972 enacted martial law and went on to extend his presidency without limit until its eventual cessation in 1981.
She continued participation in the government into the next decade.
She was an assemblywoman in the Batasang Pambansa for Manila. She unsuccessfully ran for Vice-President during the 1986 snap elections. After the famous Edsa Revolution, she ran but lost in the senatorial elections under the Grand Alliance for Democracy.
In 1992, she ran for Vice President as the running mate of then-Vice President Salvador Laurel who ran for president but both lost respectively to Joseph Estrada and Fidel Ramos.
Eva Estrada-Kalaw was born in Murcia, Tarlac (now Concepcion, Tarlac) and was educated until she received her Bachelor of Science in Education degree from the University of the Philippines. Some of the organizations she benefited and her positions were:
The Jayceerettes Organization (First President)
Director of the League of Women Voters and the Chamber of Home Industries of the Philippines
Chairwoman of the Youth Welfare Council
Presidential Peace and Amelioration Campaign
Rizal Red Cross
Anti–Tuberculosis of the Philippines
Civic Assembly of Women's Clubs in the Philippine Association of the University Women
Has a grand daughter named Evana
Sigma Delta Phi Sorority.
Board member of the Special Child Study Center for Retarded Children.