life hi my name is christine up a store welcome to the philippine american friendship committee inc is getting a new name the philippine american friendship community in one word difference but it gives a whole new meaning to the direction and focus of this almost thirty year old organization i like the folksy way came to be it started this weekend basketball games in the bumpy streets of jersey city and they were versus they were school versus school filipinos and none filipinos playing together in the spirit of camaraderie and togetherness the pioneer founders thought of gathering all of them into an organization that would help integrate filipinos with other ethnic groups and familiarize them with the american way of life over time that spirit would be challenged by leadership ambition and other issues what baf come to this day has remained steadfast in assisting vulnerable sectors of the community the elderly and other states as well we have people coming from connecticut and sometimes even as far as philadelphia sometimes even as far as virginia and mary land let's ask helen why a change of name is important at this point people sometimes didn't know what is the meaning of right and so to have that acronym feel that acronym we thought of like different names community help focus our mission but also make their organization more attractive because we are an aging organization in terms of of the officers and the leaders so millions are most definitely looking for community they want to live and work in the same area and spend time with others in their generation that are that these students or young parents that's the challenge of power are you are you getting that are you getting the young people we are just almost trying to really get a lot of our programs  jersey but most central jersey and i mean a million interested for like thirty years and in my area you've never heard of until i joined the community a community but how do you reach out areas what we do is that we advertise what we do but most of the focus is you know the injuries is the ok so that's probably why you really have not heard about right so maybe that's one thing that we can address later on in our we're you know submit to their local newspapers and to feel  helen as president elect how do you plan to sustain past like what are your specific strategies to introduce the used to come in because i know dr you mentioned  have yoga and lines dancing evidence free it's free for everyone and we do it like twice can somebody tell me tell us our viewers what is a profile of a filipino most of the filipinos inventors how are they different from the filipinos in new york for example are they in terms of income in terms of property ownership maybe in terms of i also picked up the two thousand and ten census and right now i can't find my my mind for many things in my mind what's the exact but definitely there is that highly educated more educated but then the other ethnic groups in jersey and we started with the community development block grant and it's just unfortunate that a lot of filipinos in jersey city we pay our taxes repaired but we don't get back from from what we in central jersey there's another one in central jersey and i don't know if there's like juan or is it's not known but there's a phil mayor and and you said earlier in the ground was community development so what community development initiative did pasco have to do to continue having a grant actually it was like the first grass was like return for seniors because that's the one that has plan to have the preparation is done by a comedian and it's presented to the board who approves the details and there is a budget submitted from the and i think we are proud of since like dr came on board we heard like we are like every year we refile for our income tax return so that and it's as you as you read we have fifteen twenty thousand filipino they have all their needs to be heard and i would think that we need to help our young generation go to whatever don't if they have jobs if they have like groups on top of their head they're ok they're happy they're they are happy and they don't go out of their shell like what is this will all my tomorrow