Global Filipino Youth Awards successfully launched

GLobal Filipinos Australia has successfully launched last July 14 the Global Filipino Youth Awards at the Macquarie Theatre, NSW Parliament, Sydney.

The Awards recognised 28 youth and 2 youth groups in arts, academic, community service, sports, journalism, business and entertainment. Four awardees are based in the Philippines, one in France, one in USA, and 24 in Australia.

The two youth groups are the Pinoy TV Cast & Crew based in Melbourne and University of the Visayas Choir who also treated the audience with their special brand of music.

See related pre-event media release for photos of awardees. [Requires Acrobat Reader]

Global Filipino Youth awardees

The awardees are Berline A. Aguinaldo (Arts/Community Service, Philippines), Krisanne Alcantara (Academic/Journalism, Australia), Ania Jaucian Aquino (Journalism, Australia), Michelle Baltazar (Journalism, Australia), Julie Anne Bankowski (Sports/Community Service, Australia), Andrew Barbacetio (Community Service, Australia), Cynthia Abenojar-Barbieri (Community Service, France), Christian P. Bulos (Arts, Australia), Bevan Calvert (Sports, Australia), Pia Castray (Sports, Australia), Ana Gacis (Academic/Community Service, Australia), Keziah Llare DG Gallardo (Community Service, Philippines), Melissa Gamat (Academic/Community Service, Australia), Dr Fay Catherine K. Gloria (Community Service, Philippines), Tania Gomez (Journalism, Australia), Warren Kaiser (Government/Technology, Australia), Elaine Laforteza (Academic, Australia), Kristine Marie E. Liberato (Academic/Community Service, Philippines), Jerome Martin (Academic, Australia), Ma. Luisa Mauricio (Academic / Community Service, Philippines), Dr Rose Anne Misajon PhD (Academic/Community Service, Australia), Emma E. Montalbo (Academic/Community Service, Philippines), Joe Natoli (Arts/Community Service, Australia), Rafaella Nepales (Arts/Entertainment, USA), Kathy Novak (Journalism TV SBS, Australia), Pinoy TV Cast & Crew (Arts/Entertainment/ Community Service, Australia), Dave Michael Ramas (Sports/Community Service, Australia), Marco Selorio (Business/Sports, Australia), Ausseela Thanaphongsakorn (Journalism/Community Service, Australia), and University of the Visayas Choir (Arts/Entertainment, Philippines).

Enriching the Australian multicultural society

In their separate speeches, Mr John Aquilina MP, and Mr Stepan Kerkyasharian AM, both recognised the contributions of the Filipino community to the enrichment of Australian multicultural society and exhorted the youth to be proud of their heritage. Mr Aquilina is the Leader of the House of the NSW Parliament and Mr Kerkyasharian is the Chairperson of the NSW Community Relations Commission.

Ms Lolita Farmer OAM, Global Filipino Australia president, is very hopeful that with the support of the government, business and the community, the Global Filipino Youth Awards will start a tradition to recognise the many young people of Filipino ancestry around the world “whose energy, idealism, enthusiasm and commitment can strengthen democracy and offer protection and assistance to the poor.”

“Let us hope the Awards will continue as a rallying point to harness and mobilise our youth in the development of the community and the country,” Ms Farmer continued.

Awarding video clips (from the files of The Filipino Australian):

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Posted by TFA Editor on Jul 22 2008. Filed under Associations, Youth. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry