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Where you are should not determine what you become. Well done, Kesz, well done – Archbishop Desmond Tutu to Int’l Children’s Peace Prize awardee Kesz Valdez
Desmond Tutu praises 13-year-old Pinoy peace awardee for giving voice to street children Read More »
Published work15-year-old Filipino teener Kyle Baleva is walking for the fourth time to help orphaned Filipino children back home. He is traversing the cities of Elst, Wijchen, Groesbeek and Cuijk in the western part of the Netherlands through the Four-Day Nijmegen Marches on this exceptionally rainy week in the country. His goal: to raise much needed funds for the Children’s Rehabilitation Center’s (CRC) “A Hand for an Orphan” program.
Filipino teener in Holland walks for orphans in The Philippines Read More »
Published workThere was an outpour of emotions as family, friends, former colleagues and comrades of Willem Geertman filled the Old Catholic Church on Ruysdaelstraat in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. His comrades were in black and red, organizing Filipinos donned Filipiniana and his brothers wore identical white t-shirts with the words: “Katarungan para kay Kuya William” which brother
Wilhelm Geertman remembered through memorial service Read More »
Published workThis is a sidebar story to this news report published on Saturday. Last Friday’s march to the Philippine Embassy in The Hague, The Netherlands brought Willem Geertman’s fellow NGO workers to tears – of hate and sadness. They fondly remembered the environmentalist and activist as kind, welcoming and crazy about the Philippines. Maitet Ledesma of
Remembering Willem Read More »
Published workSeveral Holland-based NGOs condemned the killing of development worker Willem Geertman who was murdered in front of his office in Pampanga, Philippines Tuesday afternoon. Amsterdam-based groups Bayan Europe and Dutch-Filipino Solidarity Group asked for a swift non-partisan investigation of the case and quick justice for the 67-year-old Dutchman. The National Democratic Front of the Philippines
Independent, impartial investigation sought for Dutchman killed in PH Read More »
Published workWhile the Filipino community reels from a recent boxing event at the NAIA, here’s some good news from the Filipino community in The Netherlands published on GMA News Online. content if browser does not support
Fil-Dutch ‘Michael Jackson’ to send Pinoy street children to school Read More »
Published workWoman is the companion of man, gifted by equal mental capacities. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man’s superior. – Mahatma Gandhi Filipinas in The Netherlands gathered for a day of salu-salo, women workshops and talks on Saturday, March 17 in Utrecht, The Netherlands. Here’s the story. Error: Embedded data
Filipinas in The Netherlands celebrate Int’l Women’s Day Read More »
Published workMy article on the Filipinas’ reaction to reality TV show Exotische Liefde, published on GMA News Online. Error: Embedded data could not be displayed.
‘Exotic Love’ reality show in The Netherlands angers Pinays Read More »
Published workPhilippine cargo ship MV Aztec Maiden ran ashore the coast of Wijk aan Zee in The Netherlands around 4:45 in the morning of January 20, 2011. 21 crew members aboard the ship are all Filipinos. Again, social media has done its fair share in updating the public.
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Published workFilipinos and foreigners alike were treated to the heavenly voices of the Loboc Children’s Choir in The Netherlands for three nights in a row. They performed in Hoofddorp on Wednesday evening, The Hague on Thursday and Venlo on Friday. The 22-song repertoire is part of a series of fund-raising concerts which will culminate in Spain where they are to take part in the Certamen Coral de Tolosa competition from October 29 to November 1.
Philippines own Loboc Children’s Choir wowed Holland Read More »
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