PhEA to conduct 70th nat’l Conference and Training
The Philippine Home Economics Association (PHEA) president Susana Guinea with the PHEA board of directors will conduct the 70th National Conference and Training (NC and T) from Oct. 19-21, 2018 at the Legend Hotel, Puerto Princesa City, Palawan.
The theme of NC and T is “Millennial Innovations for Elderly Well Being: A Challenge for Home Economists Towards Sustainable-Living.”
Chaired by PHEA assistant treasurer Manuelita Reyes, a tree-planting activity will be conducted to start the three-day NC and T.
Dr. Elsie Tirol-Barrios, the Schools Division superintendent of Puerto Princesa, will welcome the participants during the opening ceremony.
PHEA, through Guinea and Albert Rosarda, the executive committee convener for South East Asian countries of the Asian Regional Association for Home Economics (ARAHE), will give a posthumous award to the family of the late Dr. Helena Zoila Benitez for her service to the Filipino people and acknowledging her contributions as the PHEA founding president, as a senator, as a pioneer environmentalist, and as an icon in education.
Dr. Jenilyn Rose Corpuz, Schools Division superintendent of DepEd Manila will deliver the keynote address. Maria Gracia “Joy” Fulgencio of St. Luke’s Medical Center Global City is this year’s plenary speaker.
Aida Rondilla, the CID chief supervisor of DepEd Manila and also a PHEA national coordinator, will explain the rationale and mechanics of the presentation of best practices presentation.
Albert M. Rosarda, the prefect of discipline and TLE and ICT faculty of the junior high school of Colegio de San Juan de Letran Manila, will be the plenary session’s moderator.
The concurrent sessions will give the participants the opportunity to have various hands-on trainings on the different areas of home economics and its allied discipline.
With membership of over a thousand both in the academe and in the corporate world, PHEA has a strong affiliation with the International Federation of Home Economics and ARAHE.
PHEA, after having been founded in 1948, has grown and developed into a national non-government organization bringing together individuals, institutions, and organizations in order to improve home economics education and its allied discipline.