29 Filipino youth chosen as Ambassadors of Goodwill
TWENTY-NINE of the country's finest youth leaders will sail the seas to tell Asia how great it is to be Filipino.
This year's delegates to the 32nd Ship for Southeast Asian Youth Program (SSEAYP) are a group of talented students and young professionals chosen by the National Youth Commission from thousands of potential applicants from across the country.
They were officially declared Philippine Participating Youths after undergoing a rigorous10-day pre-departure training in Pililla, Rizal in July 2005.
The PPY's include Peterjo Salenda (Region1), Mark Theodore Baccay and Bethzaida Gamiao (Region2), Shierwin Taay and Jacquelyn Iglesias (Region3), Emil Layacan Jr. and Charina Carmen Cabading (Region4), Jyro Trivino and Rosie Avila (Region5), Robert Rodriguez and Nizette Monteblanco (Region6), Joeberth Michael Marti Ocao and Shiela Tuale (Region7), Merwin Kangleon (Region8), Michael Radi and Janine Michelle Cabato (Region9), Marvin Glenn Fernandez and Heidi Joan Calo (Region10), Rotchie Ravelo and Ria Florlynn Tumlad (Region11), Adillah Latiph (ARMM), Merinessa Dimaano (CARAGA), Ivan Baguilat and Yana Gail Castillo (CAR), and Roy Nicolas Molon Jr. and Stephanie Jane Dy Tiapco (NCR).
This year's National Leader is Ramon G. Lacbain II who himself was a participating youth in 1991 and who currently serves as vice governor in the province of Zambales. Taay, a provincial board member of Aurora province was voted by the delegation as Youth Leader while Monteblanco, a litigation lawyer in Iloilo City, was chosen Assistant Youth Leader.
An annual cultural exchange program sponsored by the Japanese government, SSEAYP aims to promote friendship and mutual understanding among youth delegates from the 10 participating Southeast Asian countries and Japan.
The Philippine delegation will join its counterparts from Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, and Japan for two months on board the Japanese ship Nippon Maru.
Activities such as institutional visits and home stays in the participating countries, discussion groups, cultural presentations, and other goodwill exchanges are geared towards broadening international perspective and cultivating the spirit of Asian cooperation.
The Philippine delegation this year is named PAGLAUM, a Visayan term for hope. PAGLAUM also stands for "PAGLAlakbay tungo sa UMaga" or a journey towards a prosperous tomorrow.
And because the Philippine delegation has consistently been regarded as an outstanding contingent in the 31 years of SSEAYP, the group, just like the previous batches, will undergo months of preparation, training and research prior to departure in November.
Come October, the delegation will mount a concert in Manila that would give SSEAYP alumni, friends, family, and sponsors a glimpse of the cultural presentations that would be presented on board the ship and in the host countries.
This year's delegates to the 32nd Ship for Southeast Asian Youth Program (SSEAYP) are a group of talented students and young professionals chosen by the National Youth Commission from thousands of potential applicants from across the country.
They were officially declared Philippine Participating Youths after undergoing a rigorous10-day pre-departure training in Pililla, Rizal in July 2005.
The PPY's include Peterjo Salenda (Region1), Mark Theodore Baccay and Bethzaida Gamiao (Region2), Shierwin Taay and Jacquelyn Iglesias (Region3), Emil Layacan Jr. and Charina Carmen Cabading (Region4), Jyro Trivino and Rosie Avila (Region5), Robert Rodriguez and Nizette Monteblanco (Region6), Joeberth Michael Marti Ocao and Shiela Tuale (Region7), Merwin Kangleon (Region8), Michael Radi and Janine Michelle Cabato (Region9), Marvin Glenn Fernandez and Heidi Joan Calo (Region10), Rotchie Ravelo and Ria Florlynn Tumlad (Region11), Adillah Latiph (ARMM), Merinessa Dimaano (CARAGA), Ivan Baguilat and Yana Gail Castillo (CAR), and Roy Nicolas Molon Jr. and Stephanie Jane Dy Tiapco (NCR).
This year's National Leader is Ramon G. Lacbain II who himself was a participating youth in 1991 and who currently serves as vice governor in the province of Zambales. Taay, a provincial board member of Aurora province was voted by the delegation as Youth Leader while Monteblanco, a litigation lawyer in Iloilo City, was chosen Assistant Youth Leader.
An annual cultural exchange program sponsored by the Japanese government, SSEAYP aims to promote friendship and mutual understanding among youth delegates from the 10 participating Southeast Asian countries and Japan.
The Philippine delegation will join its counterparts from Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, and Japan for two months on board the Japanese ship Nippon Maru.
Activities such as institutional visits and home stays in the participating countries, discussion groups, cultural presentations, and other goodwill exchanges are geared towards broadening international perspective and cultivating the spirit of Asian cooperation.
The Philippine delegation this year is named PAGLAUM, a Visayan term for hope. PAGLAUM also stands for "PAGLAlakbay tungo sa UMaga" or a journey towards a prosperous tomorrow.
And because the Philippine delegation has consistently been regarded as an outstanding contingent in the 31 years of SSEAYP, the group, just like the previous batches, will undergo months of preparation, training and research prior to departure in November.
Come October, the delegation will mount a concert in Manila that would give SSEAYP alumni, friends, family, and sponsors a glimpse of the cultural presentations that would be presented on board the ship and in the host countries.
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