{"id":11148,"date":"2018-08-01T03:04:38","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T03:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/?p=11148"},"modified":"2018-08-09T11:22:21","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T11:22:21","slug":"vicepresidencia-funglode-y-children-internacional-celebran-final-torneo-de-debates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/vicepresidencia-funglode-y-children-internacional-celebran-final-torneo-de-debates\/","title":{"rendered":"Office of the Vice President, Funglode and Children International Celebrate Final Student Tournament \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0<\/strong>Student Emilia Bonilla Dur\u00e1n, named \u201cBest Orator,\u201d Received a Medal of Honor\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>and Other Prizes<\/em><\/p>\n

Santo Domingo, August 1, 2018 \u2013 <\/strong>The Office of the Vice President, the Dominican Debate Society (Sodode), the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (Funglode) and the Children International organization in the Dominican Republic, sponsored the XVII Junior Debate Tournament with the goal of encouraging national youth in issues included in the national and international agendas, as well as encourage the critical analysis of these issues and the active participation of young students in other major issues.<\/p>\n

Deputy director of the Progresando con Solidaridad<\/em> (Prosoli) program, H\u00e9ctor Medina, who represented Vice President Dr. Margarita Cede\u00f1o at the event, highlighted the importance of having the country\u2019s youth learn specific techniques on how to speak in public.\u00a0 The participating youth are taught by experienced trainers on the importance of learning how to debate ideas on important and relevant issues that impact society.<\/p>\n

Vice President Dr. Cede\u00f1o, who is the current Coordinator of the Cabinet on Social Policies, encouraged the Alliance with the Dominican Debate Society in 2013 as a way to encourage the debate culture among youth who represent vulnerable sectors. \u00a0The goal is to train them to discuss issues related to the national agenda.<\/p>\n

The members of the winning team were Anny Adaliza Romero Medina, Dioslanyi Franchesca Gonz\u00e1lez, Yanerys Lisbeth Bonilla and Roc\u00edo Calder\u00f3n Rosario.\u00a0 The jury chose Emilia Bonilla Dur\u00e1n as the tournament\u2019s top orator who, along with the other winners, received cash awards.<\/p>\n

The 54 participating high school students from the low-income neighborhoods of Los Tres Brazos <\/em>and La Caleta<\/em>, in Santo Domingo, chose as their debate theme the following subject: \u201cShould there be a participation quota for youth in our National Congress?\u201d<\/p>\n

Before the event, the participating students and members of Progresando con Solidaridad<\/em> and the Children International organizations, were trained in oratory, stage control, effective debate and research techniques by experts in the subject area.<\/p>\n

Participants in the event also included: Andr\u00e9s Mej\u00eda, head of the Youth Division of Progresando con Solidaridad<\/em> of the Office of the Vice President; Arisleidy Aquino, Empowerment Coordinator of Children International Rep\u00fablica Dominicana; the head of the Dominican Debate Society, Pamela Mart\u00ednez Ach\u00e9car; and Frida Florentino, from Funglode.\u00a0 Both Ms. Florentino and Mr. Medina participated as jurors during the debate.<\/p>\n

The debate is an essential tool for the development and strengthening of democracy in open societies. \u00a0It is more than being a demonstration of verbal talent, it is also a space where ideas can be discussed, tolerance for diversity strengthened, and provide a rigorous self-examination process of ideas.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Student Emilia Bonilla Dur\u00e1n, named \u201cBest Orator,\u201d Received a Medal of Honor\u00a0\u00a0and Other Prizes Santo Domingo, August 1, 2018 \u2013 The Office of the Vice President, the Dominican Debate Society (Sodode), the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (Funglode) and the Children International organization in the Dominican Republic, sponsored the XVII Junior Debate Tournament with … Continue reading “Office of the Vice President, Funglode and Children International Celebrate Final Student Tournament \u00a0“<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11244,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11148\/revisions\/11244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}