By AVIGAIL OLARTE, Asian News Network
BANGKOK—Asean Secretary General Surin Pitsuwan on Tuesday assured that the regional body is committed to taking better care of persons with disabilities (PWDs) as the grouping moves towards one community in three years.
“Asean is aspiring to become a caring and sharing committee of nations,” Surin said during the graduation rites of the US-based Institute on Disability and Public Policy (IDPP) in Mahidol University in Bangkok.
“The way in which we care for our people, the weak, the disadvantaged, the marginalized, the women, the children, the way in which we treat them, shall be the measure of our own achievement as a community of caring and sharing societies… Asean (has not forgotten ) its commitment to your welfare, to your well-being,” he added.
Seven scholars—six from Philippines and one from Cambodia—graduated with the degree of Master’s in Comparative and International Disability Policy, and made history for being the first batch of students in the world’s first virtual graduate degree program of its kind.
