Menchu was born, raised and educated in Philippines but eventually immigrated to US in the early 1980s. She was serving as a nurse at the New York University’s Langone Medical Centre. During the hurricane, she took the initiative and devised a plan to transport 20 at-risk infants at the Langone Medical Centre to ICU around the city. She also made sure, that nurses and doctors are able to carry babies down eight flight of stairs, for making it happen, she lighted the way through her cell phone. Despite of the fact that her own home was flooding, she took preference to her job and made every possible effort to protect the babies in her care. For her devotion to serve people even in the most testing times made her a hero of the hurricane Sandy disaster and for this she received a rare vantage view of President Obama’s State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress.

Her story is an inspiration to everyone. She is one of the most caring nurses with lots of dedication to her work. Her story proved that she was born to take care of others and she is doing a good job taking care of her patients and inspiring people all over the world.