Lahing Kayumanggi Dance Company (LK) is the proud recipient of a 2006 Banaag Presidential Award for Filipino Individuals & Organisations Overseas. The Photograph shows President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo presenting the certificate to Lito Maggay (former Chairman), Ronnie del Barrio (acting Chairman, Founder & Artistic Director) and Bong Forouzan (Executive Advisor). Mitzie Finney (Treasurer) also travelled to Manila to represent LK, she is pictured below on the screen grab from BBC news. The Filipino Observer has covered the Presidential Awards in detail, click on the link to open a PDF of the Newspaper. Click here to view PDF of pages 18 & 19 of TFO
In this special BBC report about skilled Filipinos moving abroad, the 2006 Presidential Awards are featured. Pictured above are Mitzie Finney and Lito Maggay in the Presidential Palace. Click here to read and view (approx. 4 minute video) the BBC News report
© 2007. LK Dance Company, London, UK