To help Filipinos avoid losing their homes in Las Vegas, the National Federation of Filipino American Associations (NaFFAA) will hold foreclosure prevention seminars in the city soon.
At the same time, the organization will also offer free legal aid to Filipinos in Las Vegas who need the assistance, NAFAA chair Greg Macabenta said.
“We want to bring that over to Las Vegas because you’ve been badly hit with foreclosures as well, Macabenta told members of NaFFAA, Nevada during its annual membership meeting in Las Vegas last February 28.
Macabenta was in Las Vegas to meet with the organization’s Nevada chapter where he outlined his future plans for NaFFAA
He said NaFFAA will coordinate with other state agencies and local organizations to organize these foreclosure prevention meetings that are expected to help stop the downward spiral of the real estate market in Las Vegas.
NaFFAA recently began holding foreclosure prevention workshops for Filipinos in Northern California, in response to the crumbling national housing market that started last year.
In Las Vegas, foreclosures last year tripled to 31,416 from only 11,509 the previous year, data from California-based Foreclosures.com showed. Nevada had the highest foreclosure rate at 4.99 percent.
Macabenta said that both legal assistance and foreclosure prevention workshops are part of NaFFAA’s top objectives of providing institutionalized member and community services to Filipinos.
Other objectives of the organization include expanding its membership base, broadening advocacy in key community needs, achieving financial stability, and building its leadership base.
NaFFAA is a non-partisan, non-profit national affiliation of more than five hundred Filipino-American institutions and umbrella organizations. Its core mission is to empower Filipinos in the United States.
Macabenta, during last Saturday’s presentation, said that empowerment of Filipinos can be achieved by becoming active members of American society.
“Filipinos are the second largest Asian ethnic group in the US. It is the largest group in California and in Las Vegas, possibly even the entire state of Nevada,” he said.
“But participants in mainstream politics and mainstream endeavours are still limited,” he added.
NaFFAA Nevada Chapter state chair Jing Espiritu also said, “We need to coalesce Filipino-Am groups with Asians, and with other mainstream groups in the community.”
Meanwhile, four new NaFFAA members were sworn in during last Saturday’s Nevada membership meeting. These are J.Vic Austria, Salve Vargas Spensko-Edelman, Maan Pahang, and Rita Vaswani. (www.asianjournal.com)
(Published Northern California, March 6, 2009, p.A1)
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