Friends of Asingan With President Ramos

One of GILAS/AFUSA partners – the Friends of Asingan NY NJ PA – recently had a picnic and dinner dance with a very special guest of honor – former President Fidel Valdez Ramos. FVR, as many refer to the popular former President, is a native of Lingayan, Pangasinan. Some of you may [...]

Mother’s Day Article

MOTHER’S DAY
By
Vicky P. Garchitorena
Some say it smacks of commercialism. A way to rev up sales for gifts, for special dinners out at high-end restaurants, for bouquets of lovely flowers in spring. Others are happy that one special day is set aside every year to honor the one person who means the most to almost all [...]

New York/Tri-State Team Holds Chess Challenge for GILAS

A good dozen challengers from the Filipino and chess communities were not able to beat the reigning 2008 NY State Chess Champion Vitaliano “Nonoy” Rafael, 2008 at a multi-board simultaneous exhibition at the Chess Challenge held last Saturday, March 28, at the Philippine Center in New York City.
Co-sponsored by the Ayala Foundation USA, NY Tri-State [...]

Yooyak And Xoom Pitching For GILAS

Yooyak, an Internet marketing firm founded by one of our volunteers, Enrique Carlos, has launched a great joint effort with Xoom, “the online-to-offline international money transfer service offering a secure, fast, and inexpensive means of sending money from their website. For every new customer who uses Xoom, Yooyak will donate to the GILAS project.” [...]

$2,015 Raised To Date For Toboy Asingan High School

We launched the Toboy online fundraising campaign just a few days before Christmas and still we were able to raise $2,015 as we closed 2007! Pretty good results for a few days of work, during one of the busiest seasons to boot.
Many, many thanks to our new partners – the NY-NJ-PA Friends of Asingan, [...]

GILAS E-Christmas Card & Newsletter

We just launched a neat animated e-Christmas card and newsletter created by Womensphere Interactive and Huckleberry Interactive, two startup companies founded by Analisa Balares, one of our co-leads in the NY-NJ-PA volunteer group. Click here to see the newsletter.
The ecard is here: http://www.gilas-usa.org/GilasEcard/GilasEcard.html

Fundraising Campaign For Toboy National High School, Asingan, Pangasinan

We just launched a Firstgiving campaign to raise $6,500 to wire Toboy National High School in Asingan, Pangasinan. We were lucky to come across the NY-NJ-PA Friends of Asingan, Inc., a non-profit association composed of Fil-Ams from Asingan. They will be helping us in the campaign. Those of you who follow this [...]

Recycling . . . USA vs Philippines

Take a look at the PC waste collection and recycling operations of Free Geek in Portland, Oregon.  Pretty impressive!

Now take a look at the video below of our waste collection efforts at infamous Smoky Mountain.  You don’t see too much e-waste in the video.  But you can imagine what will happen [...]

The Philippine Sub-$100 PC

Well, I finally got to see the Philippine sub-$100 PC!  That’s me in the middle, holding the PC.  I’m flanked by Dr Raffy Mananghaya, the UP professor and president of the Philippine e-learning Society (he’s the one in the red shirt), who assembled it, and an official from the Department of Education.  I’m convinced Raffy’s [...]

Things Are Coming Together . . .

Man, I haven’t posted to this blog in a long time.  Just too busy at work.  But, I’ve been in contact with a lot of really interesting people both here in the USA and in the Philippines.  And recently, I’ve been in contact with some folks in Australia and Portland, Oregon.  I’ve been really intrigued [...]