The Office of the Philippine Honorary Consul in Sri Lanka was represented by Honorary Consul Hugh Sriyal Dissanayake, who expressed his appreciation for the Filipino Community’s responsiveness to invitations for cooperation and coordination from the OPHC.

The Filipino Community was represented by the Association of Filipinos in Sri Lanka or AFSRIL led by its President Josephine S. Poole and the Philippine Ladies Association or PLA led by its President Aileen Arellano-de Sylva. Officers of both AFSRIL and PLA actively participated in the meeting, where the Filipino leaders gave positive feedback on the recent mobile consular drive of Dhaka PE and shared constructive recommendations on how to further improve the Embassy’s services during outreach missions in Sri Lanka, which the Embassy appreciated and welcomed.

Among the Filipino Community leaders who also joined the meeting were Jocelyn J.B. Srikantha, Virginia H. Perera, Lyn S. Jayawardena, Lulu Hilmy, Gina Chavenia, Janet Hapitan, William Seno, Alona Liyanage, and Grace Shaheibu.

The meeting was held as part of the Embassy’s Assistance-to-National (ATN) activities for 2018, in support of the Department’s targets and goals in relation to the DFA’s ATN program. END.