Asociacion Feminista Filipina (Philippine Feminist Association)

Location: NFWC Building, 962 J. Escoda Street cor. San Marcelino Street, Ermita, Manila

Category: Association/Institution/Organization 

Type: Institutional marker

Status: Level II - Historical marker

Marker date: 1955

Installed by: Philippines Historical Committee (PHC)

Marker text:

ASOCIACION FEMINISTA FILIPINA 

(PHILIPPINE FEMINIST ASSOCIATION)

FOUNDED ON 30 JUNE 1905 IN MANILA AT THE INITIATIVE OF CONCEPCION FELIX AND WITH THE COLLABORATION OF TRINIDAD RIZAL, CLEMENCIA LOPEZ, BONIFACIA DELGADO DE BARRETTO, MARIA AREVALO, SOFIA REYES, HELEN C. WILSON, PAZ NATIVIDAD VDA. DE ZULUETA, MARIA F. DE VILLAMOR, TERESA SOLIS AND AGUEDA AND JACOBA PATERNO. IT WAS THE FIRST WOMAN’S CLUB IN THE PHILIPPINES DEDICATED TO THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE PARTICIPATION OF WOMEN IN PUBLIC AFFAIRS. THE FIRST PRESIDENT WAS CONCEPCION FELIX; SECRETARY, TRINIDAD RIZAL; TREASURER, BONIFACIA DELGADO DE BARRETT; AND THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS WERE CLEMENCIA LOPEZ, MARIA F. DE VILLAMOR, MARIA AREVALO AND HELEN C. WILSON.

THE FIRST MEETING WAS HELD AT THE HOME OF PAZ NATIVIDAD VDA. DE ZULUETA ON SALCEDO STREET (NOW PART OF RIZAL AVENUE).