Consultative Meeting for Philippine Heritage Classes

(Unfortunately this reached me only this morning but you might want to check it out if you are interested and available later)

Dear Friends,

I wish to inform you that the Philippine Embassy is presently preparing for a special cultural project known as Philippine Heritage Classes for Young Filipino Migrants in New Zealand. It aims to provide learning opportunities for the third generation of Filipinos in New Zealand about Philippine history, culture, arts and values. With this project, we hope to raise the level of awareness, understanding, appreciation and love of Philippine history and culture among these young Filipino
migrants for them to be able to make more comprehensive, creative and meaningful representations of the Philippines in various multi-cultural gatherings in New Zealand and as well as in other countries.

First General Meeting for 2011

BarkadahaNZ held their first general meeting for 2011 last Friday, 18 February at the Newlands Community Centre.  Aside from catching up on each other's holiday adventures, the more serious topic of mapping out the year's activities were discussed.

First group meeting

28 August 2010 is the founding day of BarkadahaNZ.  Some family friends came together and floated the idea of having a group that meets regularly for the benefit of the kids.  Ideas were floated, suggestions and further discussions were agreed upon.

The main activities were classified along with the leaders, and a calendar of events were discussed for the rest of the year.  It was a very fruitful couple of hours overall!