Perla Javate

Facilitator

Storytelling Project Facilitator

Perla Javate is a social worker by profession. She is now a retired Community Liaison Officer/Intercultural Support Worker from Winnipeg School Division where she served for 34 years. She worked with Filipino and other newcomer students and their families, helping them navigate the school system and providing support to the schools’ administration and teachers to understand students, the school system they came from, and their culture and heritage.

She is currently President of the Philippine Heritage Council of MB Inc., Co-chair of the Ethnocultural Council of MB, President of the Coalition of Filipino Canadians for Stronger Families and Founder and Past President of Pinays MB Inc.