Goducate Training Center in Iloilo, Philippines, is where Goducate trains people to be community development workers, who can be sent out to help needy people help themselves. Since Goducate expects people to be eventually helping themselves, it is only right that the Goducate Training Center should aim to help itself—ie, to be self-sustaining. For this reason, the Center houses many recreational facilities, such as a swimming pool, ziplines, a wall for rock climbing, a fishing area, so that we can open the place to paying visitors.
Agriculture is part of the training given at the Goducate Training Center. What Goducate is now planning to do is to offer educational tours, some with a focus on agriculture and farming. Visitors will come to learn that farming can be fun and is do-able in many settings.
In preparation for these educational tours, we brought in the locals from the neighboring communities to help set up the place, and to learn at the same time. They had fun learning how to prepare the soil mixture, which is made up of garden soil, carbonized rice hull, and vermin cast, and helping with the planting of vegetables, ornamental plants, and cuttings, and transferring things to the nursery.
