Between 18th to 21st
of July 2014, as like as the representative for the Casa Ricci social service
Macau, the author of this article participated for the first time to the annual
seminary “explore and develop social services in Asia” that was organized by
the Society of Jesuit in Asia, topic of thel seminary for this year
was "social enterprise."
The author of this article
have great experience in social work relationships during these past years, so
the question of "social enterprise" is not unfamiliar. But in this
"trip to the Philippines", the biggest gain was to have the
opportunity to know the different Jesuit communities of different countries and
regions, and to understand their regional life, culture and working style.
Representatives participated in this annual seminary came from countries and
regions as China, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia,
Myanmar, Spain, Australia and Philippines, Philippines was the organizer
country and had accommodated adequately and effectively all the necessaries for
the participated regions and countries,
topic of the seminary “social enterprise” had been treated and discussed smoothly.
In conclusion, in the topic of
"social enterprise", we could observe different ways that the regions
and countries coming to develop, some of them preferred to make it more
commercial and some chose to treat it as social service, the author of this
article think that it would be necessary to analyze the different actituds of
these countries and regions, on purpose for the future unification of Jusuit
organizations in these countries, though it would be a hard mission, we still
need to intend, to turn the "social enterprise" into really a social
service for all.
"social enterprise”
should be a service represents the Jesuits own image, service, mission and the
principal philosophy.
Pedro Leong
Macau Ricci Social Services2014/09/08
