Hegins-Valley View Rotary Club Involved in Cultural Exchange - News - Republican Herald: "HEGINS - The Hegins-Valley View Rotary Club hosted a Rotary Group Study Exchange Team from Rotary District 3860 in the Philippines.
The five-member team visited the Schuylkill County area from Monday through Saturday, according to a Rotary press release.
The visiting Exchange team included team leader Edgar Chiongbian, District 3860 Secretary and past president of the Rotary Club of Cebu, Philippines, who is a retired mechanical engineer and businessman. Chiongbian writes a sports column for Sunstar Cebu, a daily newspaper.
Other members of the team included Joan Sarausos-Largo, assistant dean of the College of Law at the University of San Carlos; Josie Marfe Montes, a local government operations officer for the Department of the Interior and Local Government in Calape, Bohol; Sheila Abigail Go, a lawyer specializing in corporate law and taxation; and Merrill May Baje, a pediatric dentist in Lapu-Lapu City, Mactan Island, Cebu."
What is Wellness Pilipinas?
The Philippines' response to the call of World Health Organization (WHO) in 2009 to lessen the augment of Lifestyle Diseases of stroke, cancer, diabetes, etc, and the country's compliance to United Nations Climate Change Peace Building Campaign in 2007. Wellness Pilipinas! was conceived by "Wellness for Peace" Author, Public Speaker & former Peace Ambassador Zara Jane Juan. It consists of pep talks, workshops, symposiums & fora meant to achieve wellness in mind, body, spirit & economics as tools for peace & nation-building. Wellness Pilipinas aired as a live TV show at GNN via G-SAT Asia from 2009-2010 supported by private and public corporations