BERLIN. Ambassador Maria Cleofe Natividad flew into Manila from Berlin last August bearing the remains of Ms. Charlotte Gödicke, an educator from Osterholtz, Lower Saxony, Germany, who helped inspire the community of Sagay City to achieve sustainable livelihoods through the Sagay-Osterholz Partnership. Ambassador Natividad was met by representatives from the office of Congressman Leo Rafael Cueva of the Second District of Negros Occidental. Ms. Godicke – considered by Sagaynons as “the beloved ... Read more
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Berlin PE Launches Language Book and Mobile Phone App “Pinoy Ako”
Philippine Embassy in Berlin Launches Language Book and Mobile Phone App "Pinoy Ako" to Celebrate "Buwan ng Wika" 29 August, 2013 Berlin - Philippine Ambassador to Germany Maria Cleofe R. Natividad led the celebration of the “Buwan ng Wika” at the Philippine Embassy in Berlin through the launching of Filipino language books of Dr. Rey Agana and a Filipino language app for mobile phones called “Pinoy-Ako”. In her welcome remarks, Ambassador Natividad speaking in both Filipino and ... Read more
Email Fraud Recovery: Philippine Embassy Assists in REturn of USD33,000 to German Company
20 August 2013, Berlin – The furniture trading company Escoba GmbH from Falkensee near Berlin had almost lost all hopes of recovering some $33,000 USD that an e-mail defrauder managed to extract from them. But the joint efforts of the Philippine Embassy in Berlin and the Department of Foreign Affairs paid off. In the end, the full amount was returned to the company. The e-mail defrauder was able to access the E-mail account of Escoba GmbH’s Asian supplier and carried out a fake ... Read more
FILIPINO PINK SISTERS IN GERMANY RECALL PRESIDENT CORY’S HEROISM AND SPIRITUALITY
Berlin, 19 August 2013 – Ambassador Maria Cleofe Natividad headed an outreach mission to the convent of the Holy Spirit Adoration Sisters in Bad Driburg in Höxter district in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany on 05 August 2013. There she met six Holy Spirit Adoration Sisters, all of them Filipino nationals, and among them was 90-year old Josefina Marasigan (known to all as Mother Mary Aurora). Mother Mary Aurora is a well-loved and highly respected elder among the Pink Sisters, and she used to ... Read more