ONE of this year’s Ramon Magsaysay awardees should find her equivalent in the Philippines, preferably in Mindanao.

Madame Kommaly Chanthavong, originally a descendant of traditional weavers of Laos, (her grandmother and her mother), has amid the Vietnam war and its horrific effects in Laos risen to claim her heritage, to honor it and to revive it among the women of her country.

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