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AMBASSADOR BRILLANTES LAUDS PHILIPPINE CENTRE CANADA, COMPUTER TRAINING GRADUATES

Text Box: Ambassador Jose S. Brillantes, 4th from right, front row, and PCC Chair Sonia Del Rosario, far left, front row, pose with the Computer Training graduates and PCC Board of Directors.  

 

 22 January 2008 – Philippine Ambassador to Canada Jose S. Brillantes personally presented the certificates of some fifty (50) trainees of the Philippine Centre Canada (PCC)’s Computer Training program during their graduation ceremony on Saturday, 19 January 2008, at the Cleo Banquet and Conference Hall in Ottawa. The occasion also marked the launch of the PCC’s annual fund-raising campaign. 

The PCC is a non-profit organization formed to establish a multi-purpose and self-sustaining Filipino Community Center in Ottawa that will serve as focal point where the Filipino community can hold various fellowship activities and festivities and where Filipino identity, continuity and integration among Filipinos in the capital region could flourish. 

In Ambassador Brillantes’ message to the graduates and to the PCC, he urged the Filipino community, through the PCC Board of Directors, to work together towards establishing a venue where Philippine culture and the community’s talents can be shared. He lauded the PCC, led by its Chairperson Ms. Sonia Del Rosario, for providing educational opportunities to sectors of the Filipino community such as migrant workers, the youth and seniors through Computer Training sessions that PCC has been offering for close to three years now.  He assured the PCC of the Philippine Embassy’s continued support for such projects which enhance the self-sufficiency and self-reliance of members of the Filipino community.  The Ambassador also lauded the volunteer instructors of the PCC Computer Training program, namely, Mr. Edwin Acuna, Mr. Dan De Castro and Mr. Robert Salvador for selflessly sharing their time and knowledge with the Filipino community, as well as Mr. Danny Arriola for providing facilities for the computer sessions. 

Ambassador Brillantes encouraged the graduates to make full use of the knowledge acquired from PCC’s Computer Training program and to recognize that education generates opportunities and choices which, in turn, lead to empowerment. END

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