The aim of Goducate is to help Asians help themselves. If all goes well, Goducate Training Center in Iloilo, Philippines, will take in our first batch of trainees in April who will be trained to be creative, innovative and resourceful workers who can help needy Asians to maximize their talents and limited resources.
GTC has been designed to promote this Goducate culture. Where possible, local materials are used instead of expensive “imported” stuff. One of the reasons for choosing this piece of land was the abundance of untapped natural resources – its interesting terrain of hills, valleys and plains, abundance of water sources (5 fresh water springs), forests of bamboo and mahogany and many neglected fruit trees.
Goducate also chose the Philippines as the country to build its main training center because of the large number of well-educated, resourceful, hard-working Filipinos – many of whom are often under-optimized.
Recently I brought 2 friends from a large established training camp in the United States to check out our facilities and to advise us on camp development. They had helped us to choose this site and had seen it when it was still undeveloped 7 months ago.
They were shocked to see how quickly the site had been transformed into a well developed “city” with all the necessary infrastructure (of terracing, irrigation, roads, electrification) for future growth.
They were particularly impressed with how the terrain and trees were used to develop Sky-city. They were impressed with how the terrain and natural rocks were used to develop a swimming area. They were impressed with how our team designed a zip-line built entirely with local materials. It wasn’t exactly a “Disneyland” high-tech construction but it is safe and will help GTC generate funds to help pay for the expenses of running its training courses and its maintenance.
When the 2 camp ‘consultants’ were asked for their comments on the camp, this was the summary of their opinion: “Wow!”