The revolution in information and communication and technology, including the rise of social media, has facilitated not only international migration, but also the delivery of services by the government for its migrants. Recognizing the potential of these modern technologies, the Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO) started developing innovative projects to provide better and faster services […]
On 19 September 2015, a summit meeting of Filipino-American physician leaders, para-medical, health advocates, and other health-care professionals took place at Richmond, Virginia, organized by the Filipino American Initiative to Transform our Homeland (FAITH). The FAITH Summit meeting was attended by over forty committed surgical and medical missioners and young Fil-Ams. The agenda of the […]
Education is a person’s key to success in life. It is no wonder why several overseas donors choose to support the education of less privileged Filipinos, specifically children by providing them financial and material assistance. One of these is the Filipinos Married to Taiwanese Association, Inc. (FMTA) in Taiwan represented by Ms. Maria Lourdes Tung. […]
For public schools experiencing classroom shortages, their utmost dream is for this problem to be eliminated or at least lessened. Taking up this advocacy of contributing to the eventual eradication of classroom shortages in the Philippines, the Feed the Hungry, Inc. (FtH), a non-profit, charitable organization in United States and longtime partner of the Commission […]
Dr. Juanito C. Hingpis of the Association of Fil-AM Teachers of America, Inc. (AFTA) conducted the second leg of Balik-Turo 2015 in Manila at the Centro Escolar University (CEU) in Manila on 26 August 2015. The participants were teachers and administrators of different colleges in CEU, as well as students from the Science and Education […]
Towards a longer term impact, Filipinos overseas also supported the educational needs of some students in the public schools in the Philippines. Engr. Oliver Fabros from Qatar and Mr. Wilfredo Aguilar of the Digerati Association in Dubai, UAE, both donated funds for the purchase of school supplies. The said donation was coursed through the Lingkod […]
The Balikturo Project (Return to Teach) of Association of Fil-Am Teachers of America, Inc. (AFTA) will again kick off this August 2015 in partnership with the Commission on Filipinos Overseas. The project started in 1994 as a professional development program of bringing volunteer Filipino teacher based in the United States to share and exchange with […]
GLIMPSES A few years ago, in the course of regular visits to the United States in order to build support for the Gawad Kalinga movement there, I discovered a most beautiful secret. It’s not that there are four million Filipinos in America, or that they remit what must be around $8 billion to relatives in […]
Dr. Candari wrote an article entitled, “Medical missions to the Philippines may disappear” and stated, “The medical mission is the vanguard humanitarian endeavor of any Filipino medical and civic organizations. It shows no limit in their dedication, kindness, sympathy, charity, and genuine love for the poor people in our homeland” (Global Balita, August 16, 2012). […]
