Massocki Ma Massocki is a columnist, activist, and entrepreneur. He has written columns for newspapers around the world and articles for regional and international organizations such as the Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Networks (APRN), a network consisting of more than 320 civil society organizations and individual from 28 countries.
Massocki wrote a paper for the 2018 Turkish International Refugee Congress, on Refugee Participation and Representation: The Accountability of Civil Society organizations to their Constituents, as well as the effectiveness of their work. The congress was organized by the Turkish Refugee Council and Oxfam, a confederation of 20 independent charitable organizations focusing on the alleviation of global poverty, founded in 1942.
He also gave talks and conferences in Africa, Asia and Europe on global issues and at different venues including Liverpool John More University in England, The National Association of Seadogs, popularly known as Pyrates Confraternity, a confraternity organization in Nigeria that is nominally University-based. The group was founded in 1952 to support human rights and social justice. Nobel Prize in Literature Laureate Wole Soyinka is among the seven founding members.
Massocki managed the secretariat of Jaime Rocque and was his personal representative. Mr. Rocque is one of the best artists in the Philippines. The artist has been exhibiting since 1972, in different parts of the country and abroad: in Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, and the USA. Two of his works are at the library and boardroom of the National Museum and also at the Bank of Philippines Island, Central Bank, Philippine International Convention Centre and the Malaysian Palace. Two decades ago, he was known as one of the ‘Five Magic Realists’. He was also an art director of technology Resource Center (TRC). He was recipient of a government grant to the Burbank studios in Hollywood LA, California USA in 1987.
Jaime Rocque has the Patnubay ng Kalinangan, Award for painting awarded by the city of Manila in 1984, and the 2nd prize at the prestigious ASEAN Art Award of 1994. Malabon City gave him an award in the field of painting at its fourth Centennial Celebration in 2000.
As a volunteer, Massocki wrote notice of appeal for asylum seekers in the Philippines whose asylum applications were denied. He also founded Pierced Rock Foundation (PRF); a non-governmental organization (NGO), whose aim is to reduce the instance of immigration of Africans to a location that is outside Africa.
PRF aims to do this by making Africans realize the opportunity of success locally, educating them about the harsh realities being experienced by African immigrants abroad. Aside from this, the NGO also promotes democracy, human rights, and equal opportunity for every African by fighting corruption, nepotism, and other ills that make others feel delineated from the system. With all these efforts, it aims to mitigate the causes of immigration.
Massocki is initiating the Refugees Community, a nongovernmental organization whose vision is to empower refugees so that, they can address their own issues and to directly participate in decision’s making and policy recommendations relating to their own issues