Altogether 55 delegates from 12 countries of the three branches of Friars, Sisters and Laity came.

Of the 55 delegates 33 of them are DSI members coming from 24 Congregations from 10 countries of Asia-Pacific Region, Australia, East Timor, Indonesia, Japan, New Zealand, Philippines, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, and Vietnam. The DSI branch meeting was also honored with the presence of Sr. Toni Harris the International Dominican Co-Coordinator for Justice and Peace and Sr. Rose Ann Schlitt of the Dominican Volunteers International.

Following the DFLC-APR guideline each branch was allotted a day-and-a-half to meet so as to discuss important and relevant topics pertaining to each branch. Sr. Cecilia Espenilla the DSI Coordinator of Asia-Pacific facilitated the branch meeting of the Sisters. She started with an overview of DSI’s history, goals, General Assembly and the Coordinating Council. She also reported the various DSI assemblies and meetings organized in different countries as well as her visits of 33 congregations in 7 countries of Asia-Pacific over the past two years together with Sr. Fabiola Velasquez the DSI International Coordinator. At the heart of her meeting were the three important proposals for possible collaborative projects not just for DSI but also for the Dominican Family. They are the following:

 Darwin Center in Australia: This is mainly offered to countries where English is not the first or second language. The Center provides for a scholarship to study intensive General English at ACL Darwin English Centre within the Charles Darwin University in Darwin. 

 The “Gift of Love” in Ethiopia, Africa: A Home for 435 children from 0 to 20 years of age all afflicted with HIV/AIDS. This is currently owned and administered by the Missionary Charity Sisters of Mother Teresa who are urgently requesting another Order or Congregation to manage the center because the children, who are regularly and properly cared for, are “healthy” and they would prefer to provide attention and assistance to the very sick and the dying in Ethiopia. The center has the following three components for collaboration among the Dominican Family: Education, Orphanage and Health Clinic.

 Human Trafficking and Migration Centers: Asia-Pacific countries are the main targets of this social issue and concern. This is a collaboration between the host country (where people go in search of greener pastures) and the sending country (the developing countries where majority of these people are coming from)

The sisters also discussed the plans being done in preparations for the 6^th DSI General Assembly in Rome on May 2010.