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Subject:
Preparation For Women Doing Theology Participants
Date:
Thursday, 27 July 2000 17:51
July
27,2000
To: Participants to the Women Doing Theology (WDT)
Workshop
Fr: Necta C. Montes, Regional Women's Program
Coordinator
Re: Preparation and Important Information
Dear
friends,
Congratulations
for being selected to participate in the WSCF AP Women
Doing
Theology Workshop! Here are some important information about the WDT
Workshop
for your preparations.
WORKSHOP
INFORMATION
Activity: Women Doing Theology Workshop
Date: August 26 (Arrival)
August 27 to September 3 (Workshop
Proper)
September 4 (Departure)
Venue: Bahay Ugnayan
Religious of Good Shepherd (RGS) Compound
Aurora Blvd., Quezon City
PHILIPPINES
Telephone: (632) 913- 64 -09
(632) 913- 64 - 07
Host
Committee Contact Persons:
Ligaya "Joy' Santos
Jennifer Laurel
Student Christian Movement of the
Philippines (SCMP)
879 EDSA, Quezon City
Philippines
Necta C. Montes
27-A, K-3rd Street
Kamuning, Quezon City
Philippines
Telephone: (632) 412 -29 -16
E-mail: necta@pworld.net.ph
VISA
AND TRAVEL
1. If you need to apply for Visa to come to the
Philippines, please apply
for
a TOURIST VISA. For participants coming
from ASEAN member countries,
you
will be given visas upon arrival in the Ninoy Aquino International
Airport
(NAIA) in Manila.
2. Please make an early booking for your flight
to Manila and purchase the
cheapest
economy return airfare. As we have
requested in the invitation
letter,
we would like to request movements from Australia, New Zealand,
Singapore,
Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan and Korea, to support 30% of the total
airfare
of their participants. Other movements are requested to pay for the
local
and incidental expenses of their participants which includes the
following;
Airport Tax, local Transportation, Food and local Accommodation,
etc.
3. Travel Reimbursements will be done in Manila.
Please bring the Official
Receipt
or Statement of Account from your Travel Agent or Agency for
reimbursements. Tickets only will not be reimbursed.
4. There are two International Terminals/Airport
in Manila. The first is
called
Terminal 2 or the Centennial Airport, exclusively used for Arriving
and
Departing PHILIPPINE AIRLINES (PAL) flights.
The second is called
Terminal
1 or the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) for all the
other
international airlines (e.g. Singapore Airlines, Cathay Pacific,
Qantas,
etc.). Those arriving in terminal 1
(NAIA) or using other
international
airlines, please read carefully and follow instruction in the
enclosed
ARRIVAL INSTRUCTIONS.
5. If you wish to be met at the airport in
Manila, please return the flight
information
sheet to the host committee or send your flight details thru
e-mail
as soon as possible.
WHAT
TO BRING AND EXPECT
Weather/Climate: August and September are rainy season in the
Philippines;
expect
heavy rains and typhoons during this time. Temperature will range
from
25 to 32 degrees Celsius. Please bring
raincoat, jacket, and umbrella.
Exposure: There will be three areas for exposure on
August 28 to 29.
These
are the following areas;
1. Labor/Workers Community: The workers community is located at the Port
area
in Tondo, Metro Manila. This is located
at the west coast of Metro
Manila,
where thousands of family live in squatters or urban poor community
and
earn their living as stevedores or workers in the nearby pier and port
areas. The WDT participants who will visit this
area are expected to sleep
overnight
with families in the community.
2. Payatas Garbage Dump Site/ Migrant Workers
Community: This is an urban
poor
community located at the Garbage Dump Site called Payatas, Quezon
City. Thousand of families, including children
work as scavengers in the
dumpsite. There has been a recent tragedy in the area,
where more that 200
people
died when the mountain of garbage collapsed into the houses of the
people.
Because of this incident the government
has ordered the closure of
this
dumpsite, leaving the people with no other alternative livelihood. On
the
second day, the exposure group will visit and talk to the community of
Migrant
workers.
3.
Violence Against Women (VAW): This exposure group will visit several
women's
organization such as GABRIELA, Women's Crisis Center (WCC), BATIS
and
SINAG. These women's group are involved
in issues of violence against
women.
On the evening of the exposure, the group will visit the
prostitution
area in Quezon City and Manila.
For
the exposure, please bring a small over night bag, which will contain
all
your personal needs for two days. You
will be staying overnight at the
exposure
areas, and will be divided in two's or three's to eat, sleep and
integrate
with families in the communities.
Workshop
Proper: Please bring the following in
the WDT workshops.
- Bible,
- Indigenous worship materials (songs, poems),
- Personal needs, towel, umbrella, rain
coat/jacket,
- Medicine for common cold and flu.
This
is all for the time being. Wishing you
a fine journey to the
Philippines
and hoping to see you very soon!