By Jerome S. Galunan, Jr.

Assistant Professor Manolito Espina Saldivar of Silliman University, in Dumaguete City, is one of 14 candidates to take part in the Project Management Seminar on SDP (Sports for Development and Peace), which begins today and runs until March 8 in Tokyo, Japan.
He is the lone participant from the Philippines.
The seminar is part of the “sports for tomorrow” program, a sports initiative led by the Japanese government to promote sports to more than 10 million people, in over 100 nations until 2020, the year Tokyo hosts the Summer Olympics.
The project is bankrolled by the United Nations Office on Sports for Development and Peace (UNOSDP) and Japan Sports Agency.
The program also aims to develop values of sports and promote the Olympic and Paralympic movement to people of all generations worldwide./WDJ