Philippine Showbiz Today
September 8 - 21, 2016
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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. Mercado 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
FCCS Offi cers and Board of Directors
Back row from left to right: Greg Domrique, Arman Perez, Ferdie Lontok, Nisha Lalwani,
Ed Nicolas, Joe Dumrigue, Romy Pareja, Alexander Yalong & Alejandro Pascua.
Front row: Philip Loro, Charlie Valle, Amado Mercado, Jun Custodio, Felizardo Odango
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.
com/org and we are also active
on Facebook.•