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ATENEO DE CEBU AHA PROGRAM DEBUTS IN XIAMEN

ATENEO DE CEBU AHA PROGRAM DEBUTS IN XIAMEN

 

 

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                    • Top left photo: ConGen Flores delivering a lecture to the Sacred Heart School-Ateno de Cebu students at Xiamen PCG’s Bulwagang Bagumbayan
                    • Top rigt Photo: Congen Flores (center) receiving a certificate of appreciation from the Ateneo de Cebu students

Consul General Julius Caesar A. Flores lectured on the role of the PCG Xiamen in relation to the overall Philippine presence in China to a group of 25 Ateneo de Cebu high school students and five faculty members who comprised the pioneering Ateneo Hearters Adventures (AHA) program in China.

 

 

The AHA program is a 35-day academic immersion program with the aim of deepening and strengthening the students’ appreciation of China as well as understanding their ancestral roots in Fujian.

 

 

ConGen Flores highlighted the many facets of the work of the Consulate General covering political, economic and public diplomacy functions, relative to other posts in China and in greater context, in the Philippine foreign service. The students were encouraged to join the Philippine foreign service but reminded them that it would require long preparation and they could do it by focusing on their studies early on.

 

 

ConGen Flores underscored that Xiamen/Fujian is the most deeply historically and culturally link with majority of the overseas Chinese in the Philippines. This is exemplified by the 30-year sister-city partnership between Xiamen and Cebu.

 

 

This is another excellent accomplishment of a people-to-people exchange program which should be encouraged to nurture friendship and understanding between the Philippines and China. END.