January is National Mentoring Month. Mentor Filipino youth by becoming a PYC Advisor!

This is a great opportunity if you interested in working with youth, becoming a teacher, or just want to give back to the community!  No experience necessary except the eagerness to help the youth in our community.  You will gain valuable skills and techniques through meetings, workshops, and hands on experience.  It’s a New Year, it’s National Mentoring month, it’s a perfect time to become a PYC Advisor!!

Pilipino Youth Coalition-San Mateo County is looking for PYC-SMC Adult Advisor and mentors!

PYC is…..

• A space for youth to learn about Filipino concerns, youth concerns, and social justice.
• Empowering youth and having fun through leadership skills, organizing, and activities.
• Maintaining a healthy social space for youth to feel safe.
• Providing alternatives to risky behavior (s) while promoting a healthy lifestyle.

What PYC is asking from you:

• Work within a team with other enthusiastic adults
• Attend weekly Wednesday meetings from 6:00 to 8:30 pm as well as a monthly advisor check-in meetings with your adult advisor team
• Commitment and accountability

If you have questions or are interested in becoming a PYC Advisor, please e-mail or give us a call!

LKC Announces Walk for Dreams Scholarship

Liwanag Kultural Center is offering two $500 “Walk for Dreams” Scholarships to students who are entering or continuing at a 2- or 4-year college/university in Fall 2010.  In the spirit of our “Walk for Dreams” walk-a-thon which helped us raise the scholarship money, we are looking to raise awareness about the issues facing undocumented immigrant students who cannot avail of conventional Financial Aid and many other scholarship opportunities due to their immigration status. So many of these hard-working young people had no say in the decision to immigrate to this country and, often times, are completely unaware that they are in fact undocumented until they begin the college application process. Liwanag Kultural Center believes that, while the Immigration Debate is a complex one, all young people deserve access to a quality education. The minimum eligibility requirements for the scholarship are as follows:

 
All applicants must complete the scholarship application (downloadable using the links below). Scholarship awards will be based largely on applicants’ thoughtful responses to the included questions.

LKC Walk for Dreams Scholarship Application (Microsoft Word DOC - 324 KB)

LKC Walk For Dreams Scholarship Application (PDF - 376 KB)

Updated Deadline: Thursday, April 15, 2010

Maraming Salamat!

Consider this an extremely warm “Thank You!” to all those who attended Liwanag Kultural Center’s 4th Anniversary and Open House! It was wonderful to see you all there and we hope to see you at our upcoming events and programs. And we’d like to express our appreciation to all of you who have donated to our Typhoon Ondoy relief efforts! The response has been overwhelming and a powerful demonstration of our community’s spirit of bayanihan and togetherness. As always, we greatly appreciate your support!

Liwanag Kultural Center and Open House!