His speech, "COME FLY WITH ME" tackling a theme on motivation, won first place in the International Speech Contest in 2000 held at the Ron Hubbard Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, under the sponsorship of Toastmasters International and the Ron Hubbard Foundation. His greatest passion is sportswriting. He writes regularly for different newspapers here and abroad. He has been freelancing and ghostwriting for medical doctors, lawyers in the U.S. and writing speeches for politicians based in the Philippines since 1994.
While studying at Silliman University in Dumaguete, Philippines for his undergraduate studies, Ampong served as President of Silliman Junior Business Executives under the guidance of Professor Norma Caluscusan from 1988 through 1990. Unknown to the public, he first made his mark in the political scene by involving in the investigative reporting on social and political issues from 1986 through 1990, as an active member of the League of Young Democrats. After a brief hiatus from SU, he left Philippines at 20 and eventually took his post-graduate studies in the U.S.
Once a lonesome salesman at 13, traveling back and forth from Negros Island to Bohol and Mindanao and carrying - en route - at least 8 to 10 cages of ready-to-fight roosters.
FROM THE LAND OF PROMISE
Born at Camp Allere in Salvador, Lanao del Norte, Mindanao, Philippines; Spent most of his formative years in Lilo-an, Cebu and subsequently in Jimalalud, Oriental Negros; Exceptionally fluent in Cebuano.
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