Re:Union

Searching for a kababata from your hometown, a college buddy or a Pinoy colleague? Your search is finally over. The Asian Journal brings you Re:Union, Filipino American Associations in America -- your link to a network of kababayan associations here in the United States. As your Filipino-American community newspaper, the Asian Journal recognizes your need to nourish and maintain ties with the people and the culture you were born with. This is our way of connecting our kababayans to the past, of creating new opportunities for the present and of inspiring you to pay it forward by becoming active members of your association and the FilAm community at large in the future.

Kabalikat Society

Wednesday, 29 April 2009 00:00 KABALIKAT SOCIETY

CHINO HILLS – In today’s modern Filipino-American household, there are very few common interests that both young Filipino-Americans and elder-generation Filipino Americans can relate to. Aside from culture and last name, there are very few similarities between these generations. In Chino Hills, CA, a suburb about 40 miles east from Los Angeles, a young Filipino-American grass-roots organization is aspiring to change this phenomenon and bring young and elder generations together in order to “bridge the generational gap” between Fil-Ams in their local and surrounding neighborhoods.

Peoples Community Organization for Reform and Empowerment

Wednesday, 22 April 2009 00:00 People's CORE TEAM

LOS ANGELES – The People’s CORE Telecommunications Education and Assistance for Multiple Languages (TEAM) project for the year 2009-2010 is up and running.

This was confirmed by People’s CORE TEAM Project Coordinator, Arturo P. Garcia, this year. People’s CORE has been assisting seniors, low-income people as well as newly arrived immigrants and monolingual immigrants in the Filipino American community on telecommunications issues for the last four years.

Council of Philippine American Organizations of San Diego County, Inc. (COPAO)

Wednesday, 15 April 2009 00:00 COPAO

Mission Statement

COPAO is a collaborative of organizations united by a common concern for the economic, social and political empowerment of its members through developmental programs and projects.

The PhilAm Association of Rochester, Minnesota

Wednesday, 08 April 2009 00:00 PhilAm Association of Rochester

AN independent, socio-civic, non-profit organization dedicated to the presentation and promotion of inherent Filipino cultural values, heritage, and traditions to the community of Rochester, Minnesota.. The Phil-Am Association dates all the way back to the 1960s. Their original name was the Knightengales.

Association of Filipinos Abroad and Relatives (AFAR)

Wednesday, 01 April 2009 00:00 AFAR

ON February 20, 2007, a worldwide organization was set up for all the Filipinos abroad and their relatives and friends in the Philippines. The name of the organization is: Association of Filipinos Abroad and Relatives (AFAR). The organization has already filed a petition at the COMELEC to register it as a party-list.

AFAR’s main objectives are: (1) To help and protect Filipinos abroad and their families and relatives in the Philippines; and (2) To help restructure the Philippine government to minimize, if not eliminate, graft, corruption, and poverty; to make government services efficient and satisfactory; to promote and require honesty in public and private transactions; and to develop the country in order to attain peace, progress, justice, freedom, and equality, economically, politically, socially, and spiritually.