Mamita Fox

Mamita Fox, born Escolastica Victoria Fox in Curaçao and now living in Bonaire, is a nurse, activist, artist and writer. Wikipedia gives her birth year as 1942 in its lead and 1943 in its early life section. She trained as a nurse, worked in a hospital in the Netherlands in the 1960s, and studied reflexology in Germany before returning to Curaçao in 1975, where people took her for a witch doctor and she could not practise it. She pressed for the first cancer radiation treatment center in Curaçao and, after moving to Bonaire in 1995, became a well known radio personality and wrote the Papiamentu autobiography Identifikashon in 1997. In 2013, after being denied a medical referral, she led an eight day sit-in against the Dutch compulsory health insurance rules for the BES islands, which won written concessions letting patients and their doctors decide what care was needed. Since 2008 she has also made glass art.