PH Embassy in Manama Inaugurates Children’s Learning Center

Philippine Ambassador to Bahrain Alfonso A. Ver (center) flanked by Mr. Romeo Paquin (left)and Mr. Arturo Evangelista (right), two of the donors of the state-of-the-art digital smartboard with projector during the signing ceremony of the deed of donation on 12 March 2020 at the Philippine Embassy in Manama’s Sentro Rizal. (Manama PE photo)

Children housed at the Migrant Workers and other Filipinos Resource Center (MWFRC) and their mothers with Philippine Ambassador to Bahrain Alfonso A. Ver (rearmost, from right), Welfare Officer Redina Manlapaz, Consul General Maria Paz Cortes, Filipino-American group in Bahrain, and volunteer teachers during the inauguration of the Children’s Learning Center. (Manama PE photo)

MANAMA 17 March 2020 —The Philippine Embassy in Manama inaugurated its “Children’s Learning Center” (CLC) on 13 March 2020 as way of addressing the need to provide undocumented children and children of distressed Filipinos sheltered at the Embassy’s Migrant Workers and other Filipinos Resource Center (MWFRC).

On the same day, the first-ever learning session and play at the CLC was conducted with five toddlers from the shelter.

The CLC was envisioned and created in cooperation with Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA)-Bahrain and through the assistance of Filipino professionals and Filipino organizations who provided the logistics, learning materials, and the interactive equipment.  Messrs. Romeo Yquin, Erwin Flores, and Art Esmeralda donated and personally installed the state-of-the-art digital smartboard with projector that became the prominent feature in the CLC.  Filipino-American group in Bahrain also donated learning materials, books, and toys for the kids, in addition to items provided by OWWA-Bahrain.

Two Filipino volunteer teachers specializing in early education of children will conduct biweekly learning sessions at the CLC to children of Embassy wards, who are awaiting repatriation to the Philippines.  Daily learning support activities for the kids will also be provided by volunteers under the Embassy’s supervision.

The Embassy’s CLC will also serve as nursing station and diaper changing room for Embassy clients needing the service. Toiletries and other provisions for child-minding are also made available at the CLC.  END

Donors of the state-of-the-art digital smartboard with projector give orientation and brief training to volunteer teachers on how to use the equipment. (Manama PE photo)

Embassy officials headed by Philippine Ambassador to Bahrain Alfonso A. Ver (leftmost) receive toy donations and learning materials from Filipino-American group in Bahrain during the inauguration of the Children’s Learning Center. (Manama PE photo)

For more information, visit https://www.manamape.dfa.gov.ph or https://www.facebook.com/PHLinBahrain.