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SENTRO RIZAL LECTURES FOR 2025 HERITAGE MONTH

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The Sentro Rizal proudly presents its 2025 Heritage Month lecture series titled:

 🌾 Vignettes: Filipino Food
An Online Lecture Featuring
Ms. Cora Alvina
Former Director, National Museum of the Philippines

📢  Join us for this enriching online lecture celebrating the depth and diversity of Filipino culinary heritage. This event is part of our continued efforts to promote Philippine culture globally.

🗓️ Deadline for Registration:
20 May 2025 (Tuesday), 11:59 PM (Philippine Time)

🔗 Register here: https://forms.gle/S7xAqQm3Epp2ygxb8

Let us celebrate Filipino heritage together—one story, one flavor at a time.

 #SentroRizal #HeritageMonth2025 #FilipinoFood #CulturalDiplomacy

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EXPANDED CENTENARIANS ACT OF 2024 NOW IN EFFECT (REPUBLIC ACT NO. 11982)

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The Philippine Embassy in Canada is pleased to announce the implementation of Republic Act No. 11982, also known as the Expanded Centenarians Act of 2024, which amends the Centenarians Act of 2016.

Filipino senior citizens who reach the age of 𝟖𝟎, 𝟖𝟓, 𝟗𝟎 and 𝟗𝟓 years old are entitled to a 𝐏𝐡𝐩 𝟏𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎 incentive while those who are 𝟏𝟎𝟎 years old will continue to receive the 𝐏𝐡𝐩𝟏𝟎𝟎,𝟎𝟎𝟎.𝟎𝟎 and a Letter of Felicitation from the Philippine President.

📌 Eligibility Requirements:

• Must be a Filipino citizen or dual citizen at the time of application
  
  
• Must have a Philippine peso-denominated bank account
  
  

📝 Application Process for Overseas Filipinos:

The Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO), as one of the implementing agencies, will review and validate applications of overseas beneficiaries. This is in accordance with the Joint Memorandum Circular signed in 2025 by the CFO, National Commission of Senior Citizens (NCSC), Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), Department of Migrant Workers (DMW), and Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG).

Eligible applicants are encouraged to mail the application documents directly to the Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO) Main Office or through the nearest Philippine Embassies or Consulates.

🔗 For more information and downloadable application forms: Visit the CFO website section on the Expanded Centenarians Act Incentives for Overseas Filipinos: https://cfo.gov.ph/expanded-centenarians-act-for-overseas-filipino-senior-citizens?q=centenarians

Let us continue to honor and recognize the lifelong contributions of our elderly kababayans.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: 2025 CCM YOUTH FOR HUMANITARIAN DISARMAMENT MULTIMEDIA CONTEST

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Young creatives are invited to take part in the 2025 Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) Youth for Humanitarian Disarmament Multimedia Contest!

Theme: This year’s contest highlights victim assistance and its broader societal impact—key priorities of the Philippines’ MSP13 presidency—while showcasing how humanitarian disarmament advances peace, security, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Who can join?
      Youth aged 18 to 29 years old worldwide.

What to submit?
      Multimedia works: photos, visual art, short films, or animations.

Deadline: 16 June 2025

More info & submission: https://bit.ly/Y4HD2025

Following its successful launch in 2024 under Mexico’s presidency of the 12th Meeting of States Parties (MSP) to the CCM, the 2025 Contest is organized by the Permanent Mission of the Philippines to the UN in Geneva, in line with the Philippines’ presidency of the 13th Meeting of the State Parties to the CCM. It is held in cooperation with the CCM Implementation Support Unit and the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs under its Youth4Disarmament Initiative. The initiative reflects the Philippines’ commitment to strengthening the norms of humanitarian disarmament and focuses on victim assistance and its larger societal impact. END