On the other hand, I had attended La Salle College in Hong Kong, Form 6 to 7, 1973-75. It was through contacts at Ls Salle, indirectly, that I obtained a scholarship that enabled me to go to the USA to attend university at University of Rochester. I had also known for some time that DLSU is one of the top universities doing Service-Learning. Our team at PolyU is helping La Salle College (HK) to implement Service-Learning and we know that LSC(HK) is collaborating with DLSU. I have also since learned that DLSU is part of the Catholic organisation Uniservitate, which has a strong connection with Dr. Nieves Tapia of CLAYSS in Argentina, and I got to know Nieves when I attended a CLAYSS conference in Argentina in 2016. Looking back, it seems to me that I am destined to get to know DLSU.
Thursday, May 16, 2024
De La Salle University, Manila
When I spoke on Service-Learning at De La Salle University in Manila yesterday (Thursday, 15th May, 2024), it was both serendipity and destiny. It was serendipity because I got to know DLSU when I was asked by a good friend to speak in his place at an event to take place in Taiwan, which is being organised by DLSU. It happens that I am coming to the Philippines to speak at University of Philippines Diliman and to visit one of our student teams that are doing a project outside Manila, in collaboration with UP Diliman. Hence I volunteered to come to speak at DLSU, …
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