Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants (APMM) is a cause-oriented regional center committed to support the migrants’ movement through advocacy, organizing, building linkages for the advancement of migrants’ rights.
Established in 1984, APMM continues to work towards helping build a strong movement of migrants of different nationalities in Asia Pacific and Middle East (APME). We envision this as organized into a strong migrant movement, actively defending their rights, advancing solidarity with people’s movements in the countries where they are working and linking up with their peoples movements in their home countries.
Overall Strategy
Movement Building is both a goal and a strategy to achieve the APMM objectives for the strenghtening of overseas migrants' capabilities. Migrant Movement building underlines APMM's five-fold program strategies which are: advocacy and campaigns, organizing and linkaging, mission and network building, education and research, women's program.
Advocacy and Organizing
APMM conducts a comprehensive advocacy program in the Asia Pacific and the Middle East regions to help in the establishment and strenghtening of migrant workers organizations, especially in APMM focus areas. Incorporated in this program is the mission and network building and linkaging.
Women's Program
APMM gives primary emphasis to its women's program because almost two-thirds of migrant workers are women and organizing work will have to be sensitized to women's concerns in conjunction with migrant workers' rights.
Education and Research
APMM seeks to raise migrant workers consciousness, encourage the growth of their own organizations and impart basic skills in organizing, leadership development, social services skills like counselling and paralegal skills. Research serves as an important part in the overall education work.
Regional Board of Directors
Chairperson:
Rev. Corazon Abugan
United Church of Christ in the Philippines
Treasurer:
Melville TC Boase
Solicitor, Hong Kong
Secretary:
Ms. Cynthia Caridad Abdon-Tellez
Director, Mission for Migrant Workers - Hong Kong
Members:
The Very Rev. Andrew Chan
Dean, St. John Cathedral - Hong Kong
Atty. Erlich Barraquias
Lawyer, Philippines
Fr. Cyril Ortega, SVD
President, Divine Word College - Abra, Philippines
Prof. Hsia, Hsiao-Chuan
Graduate School for Social Transformation Studies - Shih Hsin University, Taiwan
Ms. Kay Ikezumi
Nippon Sei Ko Kai, Japan
Mr. Garry Martinez
Chairperson, MIGRANTE International
Ms. Dolores Balladares-Pelaez
Chairperson, United Filipinos in Hong Kong (UNIFIL-MIGRANTE-HK)
Ms. Joy Sison
former Executive Director, Asia Pacific Mission for Migrant Filipinos (APMMF)
Ramon Bultron
Managing Director, Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants
