WCI 16th Biennial Conference in Taipei, Taiwan

Nine members of WKIC attended the conference held in Taiwan from April 14th to 18th. WCI Biennial conference is to be held every two years, but it's been 6 years since the conference in Washington, DC in 2018 due to Covid pandemic. There were opening remarks by WCI President Vivienne Shen, and WTIC President Joan Fuh. Vice President-elect  Bikhim Hsiao and Taipei City mayor Way Wan-An  Chiang also made a congratulatory speech and the keynote speech on the first day of the conference.  

The next day, ECM and Board of Directors meeting were held in the morning and a keynote speech by the Pastor Ngoliah Martin Ochieng followed. After that 18 club representatives gave a club report and Sunny Shin did it on behalf of WKIC. 

On the 16th, a fun city tour started from Ching-Kuo Chi-Hai Culture Park to the National Palace Museum to get people exposed to the Taiwanese history. Participants went to Taipei 101 observatory and finished the tour with some delicious dim-sum dinner at DingTai Fung.  

On the 17th, Dr. Jungsook Kim made a speech on gender equality and women's empowerment issues. She put an emphasis on the endeavors of women NGOs to fulfill the needs and encouraged continuous efforts.   After that, there was a UN Council presentation on ECOSOC and CSW68 by Sunny Shin in place of Director Maria Fernanda Arduino since she couldn't come to the conference due to a health issue.  A round table discussion followed and four groups came up with their resolutions. There was a farewell dinner with sister clubs' performance, and Korean team members dressed ourselves with Hanbok (Korean traditional costume) and got a lot of applause.