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Brasilia PE conducts Consular Outreach in Porto Alegre

PORTO ALEGRE: The Philippine Embassy in Brasilia conducted its first consular outreach for 2019 in Porto Alegre on 3 February. Porto Alegre is the capital of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, in southern Brazil.

A total of 20 consular services was rendered during the Consular Outreach, all of them passport renewals.

The Embassy regularly conducts outreach missions to provide consular services to Filipinos under its jurisdiction. The Embassy intends to hold more consular outreach missions this year in order to reach more Filipinos in the areas of its jurisdiction.

Brasilia PE hosts talk on breast cancer prevention

As part of its Gender and Development (GAD) Program, the Philippine Embassy in Brasilia, in partnership with ABAC Luz - Associação Brasiliense de Apoio Ao Paciente com Câncer (Brazilian Association for Supporting Patients with Cancer), held a talk on Breast Cancer Prevention for the Filipino community in Brasilia on 9 December 2018 at the Chancery. Dr. Lucy Ishii of ABAC Luz was the resource speaker. She also provided free breast screening to the attendees.

After a traditional Filipino lunch, the attendees were treated to a screening of Bamboo Flowers, a film by the late Maryo J. de los Reyes.

PH hands over ACB chairmanship to Malaysia

Ambassador Marichu Mauro handed over the chairmanship of the ASEAN Committee in Brasilia (ACB) to Malaysian Ambassador Lin Juay Jin on 6 December 2018 in a ceremony during the seventh meeting of the year of the ACB and the fourth convened under the Philippines’  chairmanship.

Brasilia PE showcase the best of Filipino craftsmanship at 13th International Fair of Embassies

The Philippine Embassy in Brasilia participated in the annual bazaar, “13th Feira Internacional das Embaixadas,” held at the Expobrasilia, Parque da Cidade, in Brasilia on 10 November 2018. The bazaar was organized by the Grupo dos Cônjuges dos Chefes de Missão (GCCM) (Group of the Spouses of the Chiefs of Missions) and participated in by the 84 diplomatic missions based in Brazil.