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Every two years the National Secretaries, General Secretaries and other-titled National Staff people from the entire region meet for a week. This is organised by the regional office and is designed to build solidarity between the movements and between the Regional Office and the Movements. (more)

The Participants

Back row: Michael Perkins (SCM Aotearoa), June Searle (Australian SCM), Priyantha Wijegonerawardena (SCM Sri Lanka proxy), Mean Vearna (SCM Cambodia), Jason Koh (SCM Singapore proxy), Necta Montes (Regional Women's Programme Coordinator), Saw Shwe Lin (University Christian Work Myanmar), Elizabeth Joy (SCM India), Prsan Chaitip (Thailand SCM), Stephen Hsu (WSCF-AP Regional Chair)

Front row: Shin Seung Min (WSCF-AP Regional Secretary), Lyim Hong-Tiong (SCM Taiwan), Lee Kwang-il (Korean Student Christian Federation), Wan Hoi-wing (Hong Kong SCM), Ligaya Joy Santos (SCM Philippines)

Absent: Barita Simanjuntak (GMKI - Indonesian SCM), Prodip Sarker (Bangladesh SCM), Yuria Yokoyama (YMCA/Japan SCM), Pakistan SCM.

The meetings were long and fascinating

Not everyone was on time in the mornings...

But it wasn't all hard work...