The Goducate Training Center in Iloilo, Philippines, is taking shape nicely. In just three months of development, 11 hectares (about 25 soccer fields) of forest is being converted to an agricultural and livelihood training center for hundreds of Goducate community workers.
We hope to complete Phase 1A of the training center by the end of this year. Phase 1A includes all the basic infrastructure of gates, fences, roads, irrigation canals, impounding lake, land preparation, planting of fruit trees and vegetables, plant nursery, green-house, vermi-composting beds, etc.
Phase 1A also includes the Multi-Purpose Hall (MPH) which can sit 500 trainees ad have administrative offices and a canteen for 240 people.
If funds permit, we will also build an elevated tent-city in the mahogany forest to accommodate 100 trainees. Otherwise, the trainees will have to rough it out in the MPHall as their temporary accommodation.
We hope to take in our first pilot batch of trainees at the end of the year.
