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Mary Nakada's APLP Interim Report



Posted below is the Interim Report by the APLP Scholarship Recepient Mary Nakada from Peru.

Read the report  in Spanish or in Japanese.



Honolulu, October 9th, 2006

Dear WUB Board of Directors,

This is Mary Nakada (WUB-Peru) sending everyone a warm Aloha from the East West Center in Honolulu!
I am currently a student fellow at the Asia Pacific Leadership Program (APLP).  The APLP brings together 44 professionals from 22 countries with the purpose of building a stronger network within the Asia-Pacific region.  This is a comprehensive program covering leadership and professional skills while learning the current economic, political and cultural issues and trends in the region.  Included in our course are field trips to Moloka’i, New York City, Washington DC and Vietnam.
I am currently half-way through the program, and in these two months I feel I have already learned and gained a wealth of knowledge that I am eager to share with the WUB community and Okinawan communities at-large.

Participation in the APLP has awakened a great desire to work towards a more unified global Okinawan community.  My goal is to help establish a youth network for Uchinanchu worldwide.  Recognizing we face a challenge in keeping our Uchinanchu identity and values alongside our own distinct nationalities, especially in today’s fast-paced and globalized world, there is a need to create and maintain an open forum for meeting, networking and exchange among young Uchinanchu around the world.  Using current technologies, we can help foster an on-going dialogue of who we are as an international community and where we are headed.  We can all learn from each other as individuals and professionals.

I have met wonderful people within the Hawaiian-Okinawan “ohana” (family).  So far I have attended WUB-Hawaii, Ladies’ Tanomoshi, Okinawan Genealogical Society meetings, and interviewed at a radio show; all were so warm and supportive.  In the remaining weeks in Hawaii, I will also meet with WUB-Maui members and give a presentation to the Genealogical society. 

I am profoundly grateful for being the first WUB APLP Endowment Scholarship recipient.  Living and learning in Hawaii with the APLP is a wonderful opportunity and I am certain future participants from the WUB community will also benefit enormously from this program.  I look forward to working with you to strengthen the ties that bind all of us.  Ippe Nihei Deebiru!

I wish you all a wonderful time in Okinawa and Uchinanchu Taikai.


Sincerely,
Mary Nakada







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