The ABS-CBN Foundation's BAYANIJUAN project recently held a fundraiser auction in New York City. BAYANIJUAN integrates ABS-CBN Foundation’s four monumental community outreach programs in the Philippines: Bantay Bata, Bantay Kalikasan, E-Media, and Bayan Foundation. Although each project thrives as an independent entity in the locations where they operate, together they strengthen a single goal: to better the lives of each and every Filipino man, woman, and child. (AJPress Photos/Miko Santos)

The world renknowned Loboc Children's Choir performed a series of concerts in New York city. Sponsored by the Tigum Bol-anon sa Tibuok Kalibutan (TBTK) '09 Bohol and the Alliance of Manila and Philippine Islanders, SA. (AJPress Photos/Miko Santos)

The 29th Annual Asian Pacific American Heritage Festival was held last May 10 at the Dag Hammarskjold Plaza in New York City. The festival featured a line-up of Asian, Asian-American and Pan-Asian artists and highlighted the different cultures involved. (AJPress Photos/Miko Santos)

FilAm activists join the call for worker rights and to stop the raids and deportations of immigrants during the annual May Day rally at Union Square Park in New York City May 1, 2008. (AJPress Photos/Miko Santos)