Goducate Training Center (GTC) in Iloilo, Philippines, is still being developed.
The basic facilities have been completed since April this year. The Multi-Purpose Hall with its gymnasium, offices, training rooms, dining facilities, and kitchen are now fully utilized for the training of our GTC trainees and for other groups (especially weekend youth groups).
The agricultural facilities of “greenhouse”, vermiculture beds, aquaculture pond and agricultural fields now serve as the laboratory for our GTC trainees — who have to undergo a compulsory basic agricultural course, so that they can help needy Asian rural communities.
Some recreational facilities (eg. dipping-pool, zip-line, restaurant, facilities for
horse-rides, etc) were also completed in April 2011. These recreational facilities are not only used by the youth campers but are also meant to help GTC earn revenue from organizations who will rent GTC for their corporate functions.
After the basic facilities were completed in April, GTC has been slowly adding facilities as funds are available. The unusually heavy rains this year have caused some erosion to the slopes of GTC and to the impounding lake, and hampered our construction works.
So far, the restaurant’s kitchen extension and the children’s playground have been successfully completed. The faculty housing and the ladies’ dormitories are still under construction. Additional drainage works are being added to prevent soil erosion. And as soon as the rainy season ends, the main camp roads will be “concretized”.
We hope to complete all these projects before the end of the year so that GTC can be ready for its 2012 intake of 100+ trainees, who will be trained to help needy Asians help themselves.
Children's playground
Ladies' dormitory
Faculty Housing
Restaurant Kitchen extension
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Such an exciting development! We will look forward to great things coming from this training camp!