Fil-Am AssociationsON February 20, 2007, a worldwide organization was set up for all the Filipinos abroad and their relatives and friends in the Philippines. The name of the organization is: Association of Filipinos Abroad and Relatives (AFAR). The organization has already filed a petition at the COMELEC to register it as a party-list.
AFAR’s main objectives are: (1) To help and protect Filipinos abroad and their families and relatives in the Philippines; and (2) To help restructure the Philippine government to minimize, if not eliminate, graft, corruption, and poverty; to make government services efficient and satisfactory; to promote and require honesty in public and private transactions; and to develop the country in order to attain peace, progress, justice, freedom, and equality, economically, politically, socially, and spiritually.
