The Echo of the Asia-Pacific
Training on Anti-Human Trafficking was held at the Rosary Hall, Good Shepherd
Convent on February 8-9, 2017 for the Luzon-NCR cluster and in Banawa, Cebu
City for the Visayas-Mindanao cluster. February 8 was also the celebration of
the World Day of Prayer and Action against Human Trafficking, what a pleasant
coincidence! The echo was attended by
the Good Shepherd Sisters, Lay Mission partners and Staff from the different
Good Shepherd communities. Sr. Ailyn Binco and Sr. Mela Alvarez facilitated the
echo for Luzon-NCR clusters while Sr. Regina Kuizon and Arianne Nadela for the
Visayas-Mindanao cluster. All four of them were participants during the week-long
seminar-workshop in Tagaytay last October 21-27.
They started the presentation with
the Directional Statement of the Congregational Chapter and the commitment of
the Good Shepherd congregation to human trafficking. The reports on Anti-Human Trafficking in
India, Australia-New Zealand and the Philippines were presented and discussed. The
reports showed the common problems and activities of the different Provinces
which focused on human trafficking, challenges and partnership. They also
mentioned new programs to respond to the alarming problems on trafficking.
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The emphases of the Anti-Human
Trafficking workshop were on the 4Ps: Protection, Prosecution, Prevention and
Partnership. They were the international framework used by the United States to
combat human trafficking. For each of the 4Ps, Sr. Ailyn and Sr. Mela presented
some reports from the Philippines (Cebu), Taiwan, India, Singapore-Malaysia,
Myanmar and Australia-NewZealand. Seen were the commonalities in the
challenges and the activities 
to respond to the 4Ps.
The highlight of the Echo-Seminar
was the deepening of the awareness of the participants to the global problem of
modern slavery. Each one was moved to make a Commitment Statement that was used
for the closing liturgy.