PH Consulate General in Jeddah Launches e-Sentro Rizal
Consul General Edgar B. Badajos (leftmost) lead the ribbon-cutting of the newly-installed Philippine Consulate General in Jeddah’s “e-Sentro Rizal”. With him are Consul Mary Jennifer Dingal (third from right), Assistant Labor Attache Herminigildo Daytoc (third from left), Social Welfare Attaché Anna Oidem (rightmost), International Philippine School in Jeddah Miracle Tapado, and Durat Al Sharq International School Carlos de Leon. (Jeddah PCG photo)
JEDDAH 02 Januray 2020 –– The Philippine Consulate General in Jeddah launched “e-Sentro Rizal”, a virtual resource of Filipiniana references eyed to greatly boost the Consulate’s promotion of Filipino culture, arts, and heritage in digital form as part of its commemoration of the 123rd anniversary of Dr. Jose Rizal's martyrdom on 30 December 2019.
The project is a collaboration with the Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO), which provided the database for the Filipiniana collection.
The portable, multi-lingual collection of selected Filipiniana references in digital versatile disc (DVD) format were culled from the library collection of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts with additional materials sourced from contributing producers and publishers.
The virtual nature of the collection allows cultural dissemination beyond borders and was specifically designed to appeal to the tech-savvy generation. It is part of the Consulate’s modest attempt to introduce the Philippines via distance learning to second and third generations of Filipinos overseas as well as foreign audiences. The facility has translations of the texts in Filipino, Ilocano, Sebwano, Bicolano, Mëranaw, and Spanish, providing a teaching/learning tool for culture educators that also promotes the use of the Filipino language and the development of the Mother Tongue-Based Multi-Lingual Education program.
During the launch, Consul General Edgar B. Badajos said that the Philippine Consulate General in Jeddah’s “e-Sentro Rizal” will cater to young Filipinos in Jeddah and the Western Region who would like to have a deeper understanding of Filipino history and cultural heritage, with the use of the medium very much familiar to millennials which is the the computer. “To maximize learning and appreciation of Filipino culture, arts, and history, we have to use a medium that the curious young and technology-savvy Filipino expatriates in the Kingdom are most comfortable with –– the computer,” Consul General Badajos added. END
International Philippine School in Jeddah (IPSJ) Principal Miracle Tapado browses through the “e-Sentro Rizal” of the Philippine Consulate General in Jeddah. (Jeddah PCG photo)
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