Minister of State for Community Development, Youth and Sports, Mrs Yu-Foo Yee Shoon, will lead a Singapore delegation to Arequipa in Peru to participate in the 13th APEC Women Leaders Network (WLN) Meeting from 11 to 13 May 2008.
She will be accompanied by senior officials from the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS).
Organised by the Ministry of Women and Social Development of Peru in cooperation with the APEC Secretariat, the theme for the 13th WLN Meeting is ''Successful Women, Successful Economies''. It aims to identify knowledge and tools needed to advance sustainable socio-economic businesses for women entrepreneurs and help them incorporate their business into the formal economic process.
Peru will officially hand over the chairmanship of the WLN to the Singapore delegation at the end of the Meeting in Arequipa as MCYS will be organising the 14th WLN, when Singapore hosts APEC in 2009.
Following the WLN Meeting in Peru, Mrs Yu-Foo will also be conducting a study visit to Boston and New York to learn about the development of volunteerism and philanthropy. Mr Stanley Tan, Chairman of the National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre, will accompany Mrs Yu-Foo for the study visit.
MCYS MEDIA RELEASE NO: 36/2008
DATE OF ISSUE: 08/05/2008