CLARK FREEPORT -- About 9,000 volunteers for the upcoming Southeast Asian (SEA) Games at the New Clark City are set to undergo training for the events proper.
The volunteers will be trained by the Philippine Southeast Asian Games Organizing Committee (Phisgoc) to prepare them for their tasks and responsibilities for the international games in November.
Volunteers will be assigned to specific functional areas of Phisgoc depending on their skill sets and interests in order to spearhead the success of the games.
Suzara told the volunteers who joined the Subic-Clark Volunteers Program launch that they will have a memorable experience saying they will serve as the “backbone” of the international games. He added that “it’s all systems go” for the upcoming SEA Games.
“Whatever we have been doing in Phisgoc for the last few years will be meaningless without you. If we don’t have any of you, then we won’t be able to deliver the best SEA Games,” Suzara said.
There are almost 11,000 athletes and team officials, 530 medal events covering 56 sports, 44 competition venues for the 30th edition of the Games which will happen in 12 exciting days. The events will take place in four clusters in Clark, Subic, Metro Manila, and other areas in South Luzon.
The Phisgoc Executive thanked the volunteers from Clark, Subic, Metro Manila, North and South Luzon as well as from other parts of the archipelago and urged them to work together to make this the most memorable SEA games.