PH Consulate General in Chicago Celebrates Independence Day
Consul General Gina A. Jamoralin (center, third from right) leads the flag ceremony during the 2018 commemoration of the 120th proclamation of Philippine independence at the Philippine Consulate General in Chicago. (Chicago PCG photo)
CHICAGO 03 July 2018 – With applicants who came to join the ceremony and avail themselves of consular services, the Philippine Consulate General in Chicago gathered before the Philippine flag to sing the National Anthem and read the National Day messages of President Rodrigo R. Duterte and Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter S. Cayetano on 14 June 2018.
In her welcome remarks, Consul General Gina A. Jamoralin talked about the Filipino forebears’ many toils and sacrifices to gain freedom and establish a country they can claim as their own.
Inspired by their examples, the Consul General said that Filipinos today should not grow weary in their fight to effect change, for the fruits of this change is their offering for the future of the country.
During the event, Kaya ng Pinoy Foundation John Maguinsay presented to Consul General Jamoralin a book entitled “Philippine Expedition, The Voyage of Balangay”. The book chronicles the journeys in the recent times of the vessel Balangay.
The boat is a reconstruction of an ancient vessel that the ancestors of Filipinos build to sail the seas as far East as Polynesia and as far West as Madagascar. Maguinsay scored the appropriateness of the Balangay as a symbol of the Filipinos’ pioneering spirit, masterful skills, and steadfastness. END
Kaya ng Pinoy Foundation John Maguinsay (second from right) presents to Consul General in Chicago Gina A. Jamoralin (center, third from right) a book entitled “Philippine Expedition, The Voyage of Balangay”. Also in the picture from right: Consul Anna Ericka Abad, Deputy Consul General Romulo Victor Israel Jr., and Consul Melchor Lalunio Jr. (Chicago PCG photo)
Consul General in Chicago Gina A. Jamoralin welcomes the guests who came to join the flag ceremony and listen to the National Day messages of President Rodrigo R. Duterte and Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter S. Cayetano on 14 June 2018. (Chicago PGC photo)
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