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THE MESSAGE. BRINGING INTO FOCUS FILIPINO PRESENCE IN AUSTRALIA
www.kalatas.com.au | Volume 6 | Number 4 | JANUARY 2016
COMMUNITY ROUND-UP
Community drive against domestic violence
Filipino-Australian organisations are joining the nationwide
campaign against domestic violence.
COMMUNITY
ROUND-UP
With MARILIE BOMEDIANO
FILCOM’s News Year 2016
cheers with Sausage Sizzle
Charity BBQ
ADHIKA Inc held a
New Year’s family
fun day on January 3
with a Sausage Sizzle
Charity BBQ outside
the Masters Store at
Marsden park.
The bbq was aimed at raising funds for the Youth Scholarship project.
Spearheaded by Gerry
A two-day information
workshop on Family
Harmony and Healthy
Relationships among
migrants was held
recently at the Life
Changing College in
Blacktown.
The workshop was aimed at
increasing community awareness and understanding of issues related to domestic violence and its impact on the lives
of people.
“It is important for these
women to ask for help and get
their friends to support them
and go to agencies that are able
to assist them in whatever ways
they can help them so this domestic cycle of violence will
be stopped,” said Julie Nunez
OAM, community educator
who conducted the workshop.
The workshop was sponsored by the Philippine Health
Care Association of Australia,
the Philippine Nurses Association of Australia and the Western Sydney Multicultural health
Area.
“It is important for families especially women to know
their rights and the laws in Australia. Domestic Violence Provisions (DVP) is available for
temporary visa holders that will
protect them. It is a crime and
perpetrators commit a criminal
act, they must be reported,” Ms
Nunez said.
She said that the community should not be afraid to report
incidents of domestic violence.
“It is important for the mental health of the women, for the
children as well so that they
don’t grow up with so many
disturbances in their behaviour
that damage them emotionally.
Domestic violence affects everyone even if they are not the
direct victims.”
Topics discussed on the
first meeting were focused on
domestic violence and its recent
and Josefina "Pines" Musa,
the group is set to undertake
a youth scholarship mission.
Filipino Press Sydney group
convenor Jaime Kelly Pimentel and his family and broadcast cell members present were
Jake and Cez Lapuz, Michelle
Baltazar, Marcus Rivera,
Charles Chan, Albie Prie and
this writer along with Masonic
brothers and friends
statistics, its effects on children
and understanding the Concept
of Equality vs Control in Relationships.
On their second session,
they discussed the beliefs
and attitudes, legal issues and
where to get help in terms of
family conflicts and addressing new migrant’s fear towards
abuse issues.
Ms Nuñez OAM is also the
immediate past president of the
migrant assisting Philippine
Australian Community Services, Inc (PACSI) and the incumbent president of Buhay Dalisay Filipino Australian Association of Australia (BDFAA).
PACF with FILCOM on their first AGM at 50 Forge Street, Blacktown property last December with Manny Villon (Chairman
of the Board of Trustees and the Board). Photo by: Irene Villamar
Australian Samareño Association of NSW Inc. (ASAN) Christmas Bash at Pabico Club 55. Photo by: Marilie Bomediano