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Filipino Canadian Trustee Luz del Rosario Elected as Vice Chair of the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board
2021-01-20
PR-2021-01
19 January 2021, Toronto, Ontario – The Philippine Consulate General would like to inform that Filipino Canadian Luz del Rosario, Trustee of Mississauga Wards 6 and 11, was elected as Vice Chair of the 11-member Board of Trustees of the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board (DPCDSB), for a one-year term, during its annual Organizational Meeting on 1 December 2020.
Ms. Del Rosario is the first Filipino elected as Vice Chair of the DPCDSB, which is one of the largest school boards in Ontario, with approximately 77,000 students in 151 schools located throughout Mississauga, Brampton, Caledon, and Orangeville, in Ontario. Ms. Del Rosario has served in various leadership capacities during her ten (10) years on the Board of Trustees.
On request by the Consulate General, Ms. Del Rosario successfully spearheaded the approval of the Proclamation celebrating the Quincentennial Jubilee of Christianity in the Philippines in all Schools at the DPCDSB on 29 September 2020, the 2nd recognition from a Canadian government agency of the Quincentennial Celebration in the Philippines, the first being from the Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB). She is currently working hard to push for the signing of the Proclamation wih the participation of the Consulate General.
Trustee del Rosario also actively supported the launch of the Consulate General’s Padayon Art Competition titled “Paghilom at Pag-asa Mula sa Pandemya” (Healing and Hope from the Pandemic), at the DPCDSB. The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) is a co-sponsor of the Art Competition. To date, there are already forty-two (42) artwork entries received, twenty-six (26) of which are from the Dufferin-Peel Region. The deadline for submission of entries to the art competition is on 15 February 2021.
As a Catholic School Board Trustee, Ms. Del Rosario hopes to bring her expertise and extensive experience on Human Resource Management to the school board, and to help in the formation of the future generation of Canadians who will serve the community in a Christian way of life.
