{"id":271,"date":"2026-06-16T13:38:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T13:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kfco.ca\/?page_id=271"},"modified":"2026-06-16T13:39:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T13:39:52","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kfco.ca\/index.php\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_pb_section_0 et_pb_section et_section_regular et_block_section preset--module--divi-section--default\" id=\"AboutUs\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row et_block_row\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_column_0 et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_2 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough preset--module--divi-column--a7ef23f1-f627-4ecd-806a-02d1f07a1abe\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_blurb_0 et_pb_blurb et_pb_bg_layout_dark et_pb_blurb_position_left et_animated et_pb_module et_block_module preset--module--divi-blurb--b4442bdf-c196-46de-83de-b8a15f540ca6\"><div class=\"et_pb_blurb_content\"><div class=\"et_pb_main_blurb_image\"><span class=\"et_pb_image_wrap\"><span class=\"et-pb-icon et_animated et_animated\">\uf058<\/span><\/span><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_blurb_container\"><h4 class=\"et_pb_module_header\">About Us<\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"et_pb_section_1 et_pb_section et_section_regular et_flex_section preset--module--divi-section--default\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_row_1 et_pb_row et_flex_row\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_column_1 et_pb_column et_flex_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et_flex_column_12_24 et_flex_column_12_24_tablet et_flex_column_24_24_phone\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_0 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_animated et_pb_module et_flex_module preset--module--divi-text--default\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Kalayaan Filipino Cultural Organization (KFCO) known simply as Kalayaan, used to be the umbrella organization of all Filipino groups in Mississauga and environs. It was created in February 1983 initiated by eight Filipino associations in Peel Region as they joined hands in celebrating the year\u2019s Philippine Independence as one unified group, aiming towards a strong solidarity among Filipino-Canadians within the community.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was registered as a non-profit organization on August 16, 1995. On July 11, 1998, Kalayaan went into high gear for the centennial Celebration held at Skydome (now Rogers Centre). It was an unprecedented success with a gathering of sixty-plus Filipino organizations, and some 30,000 attending the celebration, $120,000 net was realized from this event, and KFCO earmarked this amount for the purchase of a community centre.\u00a0 A year later (1999), Kalayaan Cultural Community Centre (KCCC) started its operation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The primary aim of KFCO is to commemorate the declaration of the Philippine Independence on June 12, 1898, thereby celebrating it with flying colours every 12th of June or before or after the actual date. This is the best time guests and members are in their best Filipiniana, barong and terno attires.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"et_pb_column_2 et_pb_column et-last-child et_flex_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et_flex_column_12_24 et_flex_column_12_24_tablet et_flex_column_24_24_phone\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_image_0 et_pb_image et_flex_column_18_24 et_animated et_pb_module et_flex_module\"><span class=\"et_pb_image_wrap\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kfco.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/15_BOARD-MEMBERS-copy-scaled.jpg\" title=\"15_BOARD MEMBERS copy\" width=\"1978\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kfco.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/15_BOARD-MEMBERS-copy-scaled.jpg 1978w, https:\/\/kfco.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/15_BOARD-MEMBERS-copy-1280x1657.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/kfco.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/15_BOARD-MEMBERS-copy-980x1268.jpg 980w, https:\/\/kfco.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/15_BOARD-MEMBERS-copy-480x621.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 1978px, 100vw\" class=\"wp-image-71\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-271","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kfco.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kfco.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kfco.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kfco.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kfco.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kfco.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300,"href":"https:\/\/kfco.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/271\/revisions\/300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kfco.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}