UC and other Cebu City schools give ASEAN a hand
Cebu City is abuzz with preparation for the upcoming 12th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit, and the academe is one flowing spring being tapped for assistance.
10 learning institutions within the metro have endorsed their students and personnel as volunteers. These are: University of Cebu (UC), University of the Philippines - Cebu (UP); University of San Carlos (USC); Cebu Doctors’ University (CDU); Cebu Normal University (CNU); Cebu Institute of Technology (CIT); Cebu Institute of Medicine (CIM); St. Theresa’s College (STC); and South Western University (SWU).
Here in UC, 25 students and teaching/non-teaching personnel have joined the training for the groundwork of the big event. They have successfully passed the Basic Protocol, History modules, Customer Service, Team Building, Organizational Dynamics, Special Assignments, Personality Development, and Communications trainings which ran from October 24, 2006 until November 5, 2006, held at the UC Audio Visual Room in Kalubihan. The volunteers were also interviewed individually by representatives of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA). The representatives will each be assigned with any of the following positions for the summit: liaison, security, usher/usherette, or media representative.
However, the university’s active participation for the event doesn't stop there. The UC Cheerdance as well as the Theatre Workshop Company (TWC) with the ever artistic and passionate Mr. Rudy U. Aviles of the UC-Main campus, will lend thespian support. Complete with pragmatic period costumes and props, 68 UC high school and college students are scheduled to fill the Cebu City Fuente Circle with their take of the 1940’s American Rock n’ Roll era.
Established on August 8, 1967 in Bangkok, Thailand and composed of Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam member-countries, ASEAN is a relevant regional organization, having produced 1,149 projects or regional developments through its cooperation framework.
The renown and most awaited conference which will take place at the new Cebu International Convention Center (CICC), which is set to sail as “one caring and sharing community,” is re-scheduled in January 2007 due to typhoon “Seniang,” and will hold 10 summits, at the very least. On the 12th ASEAN Summit, the leaders of the member-countries will review internal cooperation, and will make initiatives for the making of an ASEAN community; the yearly sub-regional grouping meetings will also take place which are: the Cambodia - Laos - Myanmar-Vietnam grouping (CLMV), Brunei -Indonesia - Malaysia - Philippines East Asia Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA), the Indonesia - Malaysia - Thailand Growth Triangle (IMT-GT); the ASEAN Plus Three meet, which includes leaders of ASEAN, China, Japan, and the Republic of Korea (ROK); the East Asia Summit (EAS) which will include the leaders of ASEAN, China, India, South Korea, New Zealand and Australia; as well as the four separate meetings of ASEAN leaders with the Leaders of India, China, Japan, and Republic of Korea.
Additional References:
Sun Star Cebu December 6, 2006 issue
www.aseansec.org
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