Friday, March 23, 2007

Day 0: Arrivals



DAY 0: On 14th (Wednesday) the rest of the team which flew from the Philippines arrived in the early morning around 1:00am and checked-in to the Singgahsana Hotel in Petaling Jaya where the delegates were billeted for the whole period of their stay.

The URISEAP 3rd Regional Meeting had the special and rare privilege of having the presence of– aside from URI GC Chair Ms. Yoland Trevino-- the URI Executive Director, Rev. Charles Gibbs; and two other staff from the URI hub in San Francisco, Ms. Sally Mahe’ (URI Director for Organizational Development) and Ms. Barbara Hartford (URI Director for the Peacebuilding Program and HR). The three of them flew in together with the Philippine delegation right after their second 5-day seminar-workshop on the URI Moral Imagination Peacebuilding Training Program which was held in Manila (March 8-12). The delegates who accompanied them from the Philippines were: Dr. Shakun Vaswani (URI SEAP Regional Coordinator-Manila), Ms. Marites Guingona-Africa (The Peacemakers’ Circle CC leader from Manila), Sr. Sandra Clemente, RSCJ (Regional Trustee & Kalinaw CC leader from Cebu), Mr. Boni Quirog (Bohol Goodwill Volunteers’ CC leader from Bohol), Mr. Musa Sanguila (Pakigdait CC from Mindanao), Mr. Lee Collano (Muslim-Christian Peacemakers’ Association CC representative from Caloocan City), and Mr. Orlan de Guzman, Jr. (URISEAP Regional Information and Communications Officer).

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