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Wendell Glenn Prajelis Cagape was born on 24 April 1976 in Pagadian City, Zamboanga del Sur. It was a year of great calamity as it was in 1976 that the devastation of the tsunami has resulted in hundreds of residents who perished in the tsunami's wrath. He was the son of the late Prudencio Acain-Cagape, an Agriculturist who graduated from the Zamboanga del Norte Agricultural College in Tampilisan, Zamboanga del Norte, and of the late Lolita Bahunsua - Prajelis, a commerce graduate from Southern Mindanao Colleges in Pagadian City.

He has been educated in his early years at the Jack'nJill Pres-school, a kindergarten school managed and run by the protestant, UCCP. Afterwards, he studied at the Tomas Sagun Elementary School and took his secondary schooling at the PJC High School all in Pagadian City. He took Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (Marketing) from the Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology where he graduated being the sole awardee of the Institute Special Award for the Promotion of International Understanding. In 1996, he staged a centennial exhibit at the CASS AVR featuring his collections of letters from presidents, prime ministers and monarchs. Among those whom he regularly communicated were President Bill Clinton, President Hosni Mubarak of Eqypt, President Mohammad Khatami of Iran, Pope John Paul II, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, HM Queen Elizabeth, HM King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia and others. He has been writing to these heads of states and governments since 1996 until today.

He then took his MA in Foreign Service from the prestigious Lyceum of the Philippines University in Intramuros, Manila. He was the first to graduate in the program and he wrote his thesis entitled, "The Philippine Foreign Policymaking Process" which he successfully defended before a competent panel of experts under the guidance and advisory of DFA Undersecretary, Ambassador Benjamin Domingo. While in the university, he worked as legislative staff at the Office of Senator Edgardo J. Angara and teaches at the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde, in the Department of Consular and Diplomatic Affairs.

In 2004, he joined the Provincial Government of Zamboanga del Sur as its Provincial Information Officer and works closely with Governor Aurora Enerio-Cerilles. He has organized press conferences and write the regular press bulletin and press statements in the province.

In 2006, he was asked to joined the JH Cerilles State College as its Board Secretary, a position he holds until the present. While being there, he enrolled for the PhD Program in Development Management at the Ateneo de Zamboanga University in Zamboanga City of which he was able to complete academic requirements. He subsequently enrolled at the Graduate School of Education at the La Salle University in Ozamis City in which he graduated in his Doctoral degree in 2008. His dissertation was successfully defended before a competent panel of experts and it is entitled, "Human Safety in the Classroom: Integrating ergonomics into the basic education classrooms in Western Mindanao".

While in La Salle University, he was fascinated with researches of which he was able to present overseas. His papers are the following:

* "Islamisication of Philippine Classrooms: Mainstreaming Madrasah Education in Philippine Basic Education" which he presented at the 1st International Language Conference held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on March 2008;

* "Ethical Standards in Test Construction and Administration: A Study in Zamboanga del Sur" which he presented at the 13th International Conference on Education sponsored and hosted by the Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Institute of Education, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, on May 2008;

* "Educate the Children at risk: A Study on the Factors affecting Cohort Survival Rate" which he presented at the First Asian Conference on Education in Osaka, Japan on October 2009.

He was a prolific writer, opinion columnist and an avid ballroom dancer as well as a singer. He is the Regional Training Director for the JCI Philippines and serves in various positions in the JCI Greater Pagadian, Inc.