This programme will promote, under the auspices of the Commission and also in cooperation with others agencies and institutions, the provision of critical educational services as well as the continued exposure of younger generations of overseas Filipinos to Philippine history, culture and institutions.
It will assist in efforts to provide necessary schooling for children of overseas Filipinos with the view of facilitating, among others, their eventual integration / reintegration into the Philippine educational system.
This programme will also include efforts to promote and advance in an appropriate manner the teaching and study of the Filipino language at various levels of learning within and outside the schools system overseas, particularly in countries or territories which have a high density of permanent overseas Filipino residents.
In addition, the Filipino Education and Heritage Programme will promote projects and activities which will bring younger generations of overseas Filipinos to the Philippines, to encourage them to know the country and its institutions better, and to inculcate in them the ideal that their identity and interests will best be served in the context of preserving their cultural moorings with that of all-Filipino community.
