Philippine Community Council of NSW receives Presidential Award
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
Philippine Community Council of NSW
The Philippine Community Council (PCC) of New South Wales is a recipient of the Presidential Award for Filipino Individuals and Organizations Overseas, reports the Philippine Consulate General in Sydney.
The award will be conferred by the Philippines’ President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and the Commission for Filipinos Overseas in an awarding ceremony set this coming 9th December at the Malacanan Place in Manila.
The PCC is among the 31 awardees from a total of 122 nominations from 29 countries considered by the Commission on Filipinos Overseas and approved by the Office of the President.
The Presidential Awards is a biennial search to recognize exceptional individuals and organisations for their outstanding contribution to Philippine progress and development. The Awards are also conferred on overseas Filipinos who have shown excellence and distinction in their work or profession.
The first Presidential Awards were granted in 1991 and since then have been conferred upon 283 individual and organisational recipients.
For its promotion of the interests of the Filipino-Australian community in New South wales, the PCC will receive the Banaag Award, which is conferred on Filipino individuals or associations for contributions that significantly benefited a sector or community in the Philippines or advanced the cause of overseas Filipino communities.
Rey Manoto is currently the PCC president.
Philippine Consul General Maria Theresa Lazaro said that the PCC is the only Presidential Awardee for the whole of Australia.
The PCC has evolved into an organisation which supports advocacies serving the causes and needs of the Filipino-Australian community. #
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Thanks for this story. My congratulations. A great achievement for Rey Manoto. Well done.