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HAMILTON FILIPINO COMMUNITY CENTRE

1275 King Street East

Hamilton, Ontario

L8M 1G7

MISSION STATEMENT

The Hamilton Filipino Community Centre will actively work with the supporting organizations or clubs and the public at large to build partnership in promoting, supporting, encouraging and diversifying the Filipino culture and custom for easy integration to the Canadian society

PURPOSE

To establish and operate a community centre in the city of Hamilton, providing workshops, programs, athletics, art, drama, music, handicrafts, hobbies and recreation for the benefit of the general public.

HAMILTON FILIPINO COMMUNITY CENTRE

1275 King Street East

Hamilton, Ontario

L8M 1G7

http://fel639.tripod.com/hfcc3/index.html

THE KALAYAAN CENTRE is a Filipino community centre in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The various organizations in the Kalayaan Centre struggle for the rights and welfare of and social justice for Filipinos in Canada, while supporting the struggle for human rights, national freedom and democracy of the Filipino people.

Since 1996, the groups in the Kalayaan Centre have operated to serve the needs of and empower the growing but marginalized Filipino migrant and immigrant community in Vancouver. It is a place not only for Filipinos to gather, but more importantly, a place where marginalized Filipinos can collectively continue the struggle to achieve equality, human rights and genuine development. The Pilipino word “Kalayaan” means “Freedom,” and was chosen as the name for the Centre as a demonstration of the deep aspirations for genuine freedom that Filipinos hold wherever they may be.

Located in the Downtown Eastside area of Vancouver, the Centre houses a number of organizations doing specific work in various sectors of the Filipino community.

Organizations in the Kalayaan Centre are:

• B.C. Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines

• Filipino-Canadians Against Racism

• Filipino-Canadian Youth Alliance (Ugnayan ng Kabataang Pilipino sa Canada)

• Filipino Nurses Support Group

• Kalayaan Resource and Training Centre

• Philippine Women Centre of B.C.

• SIKLAB (Overseas Filipino workers’ organization)

The Kalayaan Centre hosts meetings, workshops, forums and conferences to meet the objectives of building an empowered Filipino community, while building alliances with other progressive individuals and groups in Canadian society. The Centre also houses a library and unique collection of resource materials on Filipinos in Canada and the Philippines.

The Kalayaan Centre is also proud to operate on a self-reliant basis. The Centre is run through the commitment of volunteers who recognize the Centre’s work as borne out of the hard struggle of the Filipino community in Canada for survival, dignity and freedom.

The Filipino CommUNITY of New Brunswick, (CommUNITY), is a not-for-profit organization founded to preserve, share, celebrate, and promote the diversity of Filipino heritage and culture through the arts, traditions, education, and cuisine as represented in the New Brunswick and surrounding area. The CommUNITY is a community funded and would not be able to operate without the community financial and in kind support. We are proud of our volunteers.

Objectives of the CommUNITY:

• preserve and promote the Filipino culture and ethnicity among its members as well as promote awareness of this heritage in the Canadian community;

• promote social unity and harmonious relations among its members and cultivate mutual understanding and respect among Filipinos, Filipino Canadians and people of all nations;

Filipino CommUNITY of New Brunswick

Fredericton CommUNITY

40 Case Street

Fredericton, New Brunswick   E3B 7E2

http://www.pinoys.org/

Culture Philippines of Ontario (CPO) is a non-profit, community-based, and child centered organization established in 1985. Its objective is to retain and share Filipino cultural heritage by providing music, dance and performing arts instructions to children in Canada and sharing it with the community. CPO conducts folk dance lessons and rehearsals on Saturdays at the Kalayaan Community Centre at 5225 Orbitor Drive in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

Since 1985, CPO has been the host of the Philippine pavilion in the three-day annual Carassauga Festival of Cultures in the City of Mississauga. This festival allows the residents of this fast growing community the opportunity to see the diversity in music, history, art displays, crafts, food and entertainment of more than twenty countries. The Philippine pavilion consistently draws the largest crowd and was awarded The Most Outstanding Pavilion for three years (2003, 2004 and 2006).The Philippine pavilion was also given the “People’s Choice Award” garnering the largest audience votes in 2007 and 2008.

Kalayaan Cultural Centre
5225 Orbitor Drive, Unit 3
Mississauga, ON L4W 4Y8

http://www.culturephilippines.ca