CRC held a round table discussion on the theme, The Influence of Sports on the Cultivation of Virtue: Towards the Continuing Personal Formation of Street Children through Street Football at the University of Asia and the Pacific on August 6, 2014. The objective of the RTD is to highlight research on the personal formation of street children through street football training in the recently concluded Ambassadors Cup. Dr.
Antonio Torralba, a member of the UA&P Board of Trustees and holder of the Mariano and Estelita de Jesus Que Professorial Chair for Family and Youth Education, welcomed the guests to UA&P, and gave a brief introduction about the activity. After which, Mr. Leon Peckson, CRC Liaison of the Ambassadors Cup Task Force, presented on “Review of the Setting, Motives, and Perspective of the Research.”
Dr. Torralba presented the results of the research. An open forum followed the presentations, in which guests from different institutions and communities participated: Former Chilean Ambassador Roberto Mayorga, Mr. Mariano Carmo of the Embassy of Timor Leste, Ms. Basriana Basrul of the Embassy of Indonesia, Ms. Rachel Gabriel of the Embassy of Argentina, Mr. Danny Moran and Mr. Ed Formoso of the Henry V. Moran Foundation, Ms. Emmylou Belen of TELUS, Mr. Kevin Goco of Gawad Kalinga, Coach Andres Gonzales of the Philippine Football Federation (PFF), Mr. Miguel Bermundo of Dream Big Pilipinas, Mr. Bong Pedralvez of Malaya, Mr. Jomar Basijan of Brgy. Marikina Heights, Mr. Dennis Montealto of GK Barangka and Mr. Roberto Karingal of GK Concepcion.
