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PHILIPPINE ASIAN NEWS TODAY September 1 - 15, 2016
BUSINESS NEWS
FCCS Aims to Support 10 Students in Philippines PUP
A local based construction
society founded 10 years ago by
some prominent Filipino Canadians plans to provide scholarship financial support to as many
as 10 students in Philippines
Polytechnic University (PUP) in
Manila starting as earlier as this
year. The fully functioning and
licensed society composed of as
many as 400 members during
its peak years plans to unveil this
ambitious program and highlight
the society’s decade of accomplishment when it celebrate its 10
years anniversary dinner dance
event on Saturday, September
24, 2016, 6:00 pm – 12:00 am,
at Santa Monica Parish Church
located at 12011 Woodhead
Road, Richmond, BC.
The Filipino Canadian Construction Society (FCCS) is composed of Fil – Can contractors,
small business owners and professionals with a self-mandate of
providing value to the construction community through education and training, networking,
and political advocacy. One of
their famous program is mentoring newly-landed immigrants
and assisting them to locate
engineering-related jobs. In the
year 2009, under the leadership
of one of its founding member
– Amado Mercado Jr., FCCS
successfully contributed $6,000
cash to the construction of the
new Multicultural Helping House
Society’s headquarter in Vancouver. Mr. Merc ado also added that
in its 10 years of existence, the
society was able to assist in various ways approximately 60 immigrants to settle here in lower
mainland. The group in various
occasions also represented the
Filipino community in various
federal and provincial consultation sessions to help improve the
welfare of Filipinos in Canadian
society.
In 2015, FCCS received the
prestigious Professional Immigrant Network Leadership Award
from the Immigrant Employment
Council of British Columbia
(IECBC). Its current President-Ed Nicolas, himself a registered
professional engineer (P.Eng)
and a certified Home Inspector,
labeled the award as a testament
of the group’s dedication to help
newly landed immigrants integrate themselves into Canadian
society through its various programs and activities.
Everyone is invited to join
FCCS 10th year celebration. If
interested to attend or be a sponsor of the event, please contact
Ed Nicolas at 778-378-7637 or
Amado Mercado at 604-786-
6801. Our website is also available 24/7 at www.fccsbc.wix.
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