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AARP Celebrates the 2018 AARP Asian American & Pacific Islander Hero Award Winners
WASHINGTON, D.C.— AARP announces the winners of the 2018 Asian American & Pacific Islander Hero Award: Denny Chan of Justice in Aging in Los Angeles and Jon Melegrito of the the Filipino Veterans Recognition and Education Project (FilVetRep) in Kensington, Maryland. This is the first year that AARP is honoring both a staff member and a volunteer at a […]
Fiesta in America, Biggest Mover of Filipino Business and Culture, Turns 20
By Marivir R. Montebon New York – Through its challenges and triumphs, the biggest Philippine fiesta in the east coast turned 20 this year, celebrated in a gleeful, well-attended cultural fun-fare and trade exhibition that appealed to millennials and the not-so-young alike, on the rainy weekend of August 11 and 12, 2018. The Fiesta […]
Filipinos Known to Take Care of Their Elderly
Preparedness, Institutional Support Needed By Marivir R. Montebon New York City — Filipinos are generally known to take care of their elderly family members and not leave them to the care of an institution or other people. An AARP study bolsters this observation, noting that 42% of Asians (with Filipinos ranking second, next to Chinese) […]
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