12 December 2013- The Philippine Embassy in Athens awarded Certificates of Appreciation to Filipino volunteers in Cyprus during its consular outreach mission to the island, on December 08, to celebrate National Volunteer Month.

The certificates were awarded, on behalf of the Embassy, by Mrs. Shemaine Bushnell-Kyriakides, the Philippine Honorary Consul in Nicosia. The awarding of certificates was initiated by the Embassy to acknowledge the efforts and support extended by the Filipino volunteers in Cyprus during the Embassy’s regular consular outreach missions in Nicosia. It has conducted four (4) consular outreach missions in Nicosia this year.

The eleven (11) volunteers are members of the Filipino community who rendered their assistance and support to the Embassy and the Honorary Consul in Nicosia in maintaining orderly consular outreach missions there.

Mrs. Kyriakides was assisted by Acting Labor Attaché and Welfare Officer Sylvia Valdez and Assistance-to-Nationals Officer Maria Clorinda Bonabon-Dankers during the awarding ceremony.

The Embassy has also been rendering voluntary consular services to the Filipino community in Athens every second Sunday of the month for Filipinos who cannot avail themselves of regular consular services during weekdays.  END