GLOBAL SHAPERS CEBU HOSTED YOUTH LEADERS
A total of 116 international youth leaders from 36 Global Shapers Community hubs from 23 countries converged in Cebu City last Oct. 12 to 14. They discussed shared sentiments on the preservation, promotion, and maximization of culture and heritage as a tool for sustainable development. Dubbed as “Shape Asia Pacific 2017: Embracing the Past to Shape Up the Future,” the event was hosted by Global Shapers Cebu hub. The event focused on the host hub’s support for Unesco’s efforts to highlight the United Nations’ (UN) subtarget 11.4, which aims to “strengthen efforts to protect and safeguard the world’s cultural and natural heritage,” to the UN’s 20 sustainable development goals agenda.
Participants learned, among others, about the Kadasig crowd-funding effort to support Bisaya songwriters
A total of 116 international youth leaders from 36 Global Shapers Community hubs coming from 23 countries converged in Cebu City last Oct. 12 to 14.
The gathering aims to discuss shared sentiments on the preservation, promotion, and maximization of culture and heritage as a tool for sustainable development. Dubbed as “Shape Asia Pacific 2017: Embracing the Past to Shape Up the Future,” the event was hosted by Global Shapers Cebu hub.
The event focused on the host hub’s support for the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization or UNESCO’s efforts to highlight UN’s subtarget 11.4, which aims to “strengthen efforts to protect and safeguard the world’s cultural and natural heritage,” to the United Nation’s 20 sustainable development goals agenda.
A welcome dinner at Big Ho- tel’s Kalea Hall opened the event on Oct. 12.
On the second day, participants went on a curated hop-on, hop-off tour dubbed as the CEBus learning tour.
Participants visited Qube Gallery to learn about Kadasig, a crowd-funding effort that aims to sustain and empower local songwriters to continue producing songs in Bisaya.
They also witnessed an exhibit of Nature’s Legacy at Montebello Garden Hotel’s glass house, .
Multi-awarded furniture designer and manufacturer Kenneth Cobonpue and Philippine’s first natural chocolate sommelier Raquel Choa shared their knowledge on their respective fields of business to the participants.
Before capping off the day’s activities, participants went to the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Office where a mini-Gabii sa Kabilin was hosted by the foundation.
The second day of the event ended at the Cebu Provincial Capitol Banquet Hall with dinner and cultural presentations hosted by the Provincial Government.
On its last day last Oct. 14, par- ticipants from different hubs became speakers and moderators to a series of conferences and synthesis session that tackled different issues on culture and heritage.
Speakers included shapers like Aimee Dushime from Rwanda, Katrina Bayog from Iloilo, Namnandorj Bayaraa from Ulaanbaatar, and Mohammad Sammour from Jordan.
The 116 participants, together with Community Lead of the Global Shapers Community for Asia, Shimer Diao, ended the event with a Community Night at Shangri-La’s Mactan Resort and Spa.
The hub thanked the event’s platinum sponsors-Cebu Landmasters, Big Hotel, Kintar Group of Companies, and Shangri-La Mactan Resort and Spa; silver Sponsors-CWC, Wealthbank, UKC Builders, J. Abraham Construction, and Nature’s Legacy; bronze sponsors-Islands Group of Companies, Kohler, Phelps Dodge, Creative Capital, Value Builders, Kone Elevators, Vic Enterprises, Diamond Interior, Edcon, QMix, and Lyz Woodcraft; and media partners-SunStar and Cebu Daily News.