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speakers
Academy | Plenary |
Going Deeper | Practices for Learning
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Dr Nomer Bernardino is the Senior
Pastor of Bread From Heaven Community Church, a Christian
Reformed Church meeting at Shangrila Mall in Mandaluyong
City, Metro-Manila, Philippines. He finished B.S. Statistics
from University of the Philippines at Los Banos and worked
as project analyst then manager of a multi-national company.
He graduated with Master of Divinity from Asian Theological
Seminary (Faculty Awardee for Academics and Leadership,
magnacumlaude), Master of Theology in Old Testament from
Calvin Theological Seminary in USA Graduate Certificate in
Middle East Studies from Institute of Holy Land Studies in
Jerusalem and Doctor of Ministry in Leadership from Regent
University in USA (Recipient of International Award for
Scholarship and Leadership). He has served as faculty member
of Asian Theological Seminary and presently teaches at their
MBA program. He currently serves as the chairman of the
Board of Trustees of Christian Reformed Churches in the
Philippines and a BOT member of Philippine Council of
Evangelical Churches. He is happily married for 28 years to
Dra. Sylvia Bernardino, a pediatrician of St. Luke’s
Hospital with three grown-up children, namely Hannah, Zuriel
and Nathanael. |
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Dr Judith Ennew has been an activist
and researcher in children's rights since 1979, specialising
in issues concerning child workers, 'street children' and
child sexual exploitation, with respect to both research and
programme planning and working with international agencies
in the field, such as UNICEF, WHO and ILO. She has worked
in Latin America, Africa, South and South-East Asia and
Eastern Europe on children's rights issues, and is currently largely-based in
Bangkok working in Southeast and East Asian countries.
Judith holds a Bachelor degree in education and a PhD in
social anthropology. |
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Adrienne Blomberg originally comes
from Holland where she trained as a nurse. In 1984 she came
to work in Thailand along the Thai Cambodian border in the
refugee camps and hasn’t left Thailand since. In 1991,
Adrienne and her family moved to Bangkok where she was part
of the team that started work among HIV/AIDS affected
families. This work eventually grew out to the present day
Siam-Care Foundation which Adrienne now directs. Having been
involved with HIV/AIDS almost from the very beginning of the
epidemic in Thailand, she has a passion to share with others
the devastating effects this virus has on individual lives,
on women and children. Although Adrienne enjoys traveling
she loves being home with her 2 teenage children who keep
her very much alert and humbly make her realize that there
is no such thing as a perfect parent: just one who in love
and respect for the children, works towards a family where
everyone can develop to their full of their potential. |
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DG Jebaraj is presently the
Country Director of Compassion East India working with
over 100 denominations and overseeing over 150 Child
Development projects. Previously, he has worked with World
Vision in various managerial roles and development projects,
such as DFID-funded Urban Child Survival Project, USAID
Integrated Child Survival Project in Maharashtra, AUSAID
Women and AIDS Project in Mumbai and Child Labour
Eradication Project. Jebaraj holds a Master’s degree in
Social Work and is well versed in rapid rural appraisals,
KABP surveys, Water shed, education, agriculture and micro
credit. He has written several spiritual cum developmental
articles and has edited three books cum manuals on writing
funding proposals, Tuberculosis and role of Church in
HIV/AIDS. The latest book he edited is titled, YOU CAN
published by the Indian Society for Promoting Christian
Knowledge (ISPCK) to inspire children to dream big. |
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As a development worker in Cambodia,
Neal Youngquist worked with the Christian NGO community
and local church in applying programmes benefiting
marginalized children and their families. Currently, he
serves Prison Fellowship International in the role of
International Services Director for Asia. Neal holds dual
Masters degrees in Economic Development and Business
Administration in addition to a Bachelor’s degree in
Engineering. With his wife, Ai hoon, and two young children,
Daniel and Vera, he resides in Singapore. |
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Aneeta Kulasegaran is a child-rights
activist and former practising lawyer from Malaysia. She
worked alongside NGOs focusing on child rights and
protection in and around SE Asia. During this time, she
completed her Masters in Law focussing on safeguarding the
rights of child witnesses in court. An opportunity arose to
complete a MA in Child Studies with Kings College London in
2003 focussing on child advocacy. Since being in the UK, she
has worked in various capacities with the private and public
sector in the field of social care for children. She joined Tearfund UK (a relief and development Christian NGO) in July
this year as their Child Development Adviser. She is finding
her role of advising on all issues concerning their work
with children around the UK and internationally challenging
and rewarding! |
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Thetis Mangahas is the Chief
Technical Adviser and Programme Manager of the International
Labour Organization Mekong Sub-Regional Project to Combat
Trafficking in Children and Women, ILO-IPEC's largest
technical cooperation project on trafficking in the Asian
Region, and funded primarily through donations by the UK and
Japanese Governments. She is based in Bangkok. Previously,
Thetis served as the Senior Forced Labour and Trafficking
Specialist at ILO headquarters in Geneva and as Regional
Adviser of the ILO's South-East Asian child labour programme. |
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Elizabeth de Castro is a child
psychologist specialising in psychosocial care and
rehabilitation of child victims of commercial sexual
exploitation (including prostitution, trafficking and child
pornography). Professor Protacio-de Castro is again based at
the University of the Philippines’ Centre for Integrative
and Development Studies (UP-CIDS) after serving with
UNICEF’s East Asia Child Protection team. She collaborated
recently in research for the recently released Child
Pornography in the Philippines, a comprehensive overview of
the situation regarding child pornography and its impacts in
that country. She is lead author of Walking the Road
Together: Issues and Challenges in Facilitating Children's
Participation in the Philippines. |
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Carmen Madriñán is the Executive
Director of ECPAT International, the NGO network that first
galvanized attention on the problem of commercial sexual
exploitation of children and co-organized the two World
Congresses against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of
Children. Carmen is an education specialist whose work has
focused on program and policy development targeted to
vulnerable children and youth. She has served as technical
advisor to government and non government institutions
guiding reforms in residential care institutions,
development of programs for migrant and refugee children as
well as for working children and children living on the
street. Carmen did her Masters and Doctoral studies at
Columbia University. She has more than 20 years of
international experience focused in Asia. |
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Anjan Bose is the ICT officer
responsible for the program on Protecting children from
exploitation through ICTs in cyberspace. Anjan started his
career as a computer professional working with corporates
and heading technical support team in India before moving
into Bangkok to work with ECPAT International. Apart from
supervising the IT division at the secretariat, he has been
involved with the work of ECPAT for the last 7 years and
provided his support to the groups in terms of technical
matters and in relation to the cyberspace program. He has
contributed and attended significant global meetings as
panelist, designed and facilitated workshops and trainings
on Internet safety and liaised with key partners. Anjan is
the lead contact for any issues related to child safety on
the Internet for ECPAT International. He has strong interest
in field of technology as it relates to children and
passionately strives to safeguard the environment in which
young people interact. |
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