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Another GK Enchanted Farm, Farm University to rise in Davao
« on: March 04, 2017, 06:34:28 PM »
Another GK Enchanted Farm, Farm University to rise in Davao
By Emil G. Gamos

ANGAT, Bulacan, March 2 (PNA) -- The “magical” success of Gawad Kalinga’s Enchanted Farm and Farm University in the thickly forested village of Barangay Engkanto here will soon be experienced in the hometown of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte.

Tony Meloto, the visionary founder of Gawad Kalinga Enchanted Farm and Farm University, disclosed on Thursday that works are now under way for the same eco-educational, farm-school village which will soon rise in the mountain resort town of Catigan, Davao City.

Meloto said that he already had a meeting with President Duterte and said that the Chief Executive is very supportive of the model farm village like the one in Barangay Engkanto here where hundreds of foreign and domestic students are currently enrolled in a farm university, studying the successful “Bayanihan”- type of boosting community-led entrepreneurship.

He said the President wants the area to be the hub of agri-business in Mindanao.

"During my meeting with President Duterte, I personally felt his sincerity to address poverty and make the lives of Filipinos better and with dignity,” Meloto said, adding that President Duterte is willing to release PHP1 billion to house the poor and give them livelihood opportunities.

He said that President Duterte knows the problem of the poor and soon another Enchanted Farm village will soon rise and bring change to the lives of the poor in Mindanao.

“When the poor are given opportunity, they just don’t shine, they shine brightly,” Meloto said.

The visionary founder of Gawad Kalinga presented some of their students who are very fluent in English and French.

He said GK Enchanted farm University is here to build character, mold honest people, make them feel the beauty of hard work, honor and dignity.

One of them is John Paul Jose, 17, a member of Isinay tribe in Nueva Vizcaya.

He said that his province is known for tribes engaged in head hunting, a tradition in the mountain province and Cordillera that has faded due to the advent of urban civilization.

Jose said that “instead of taking life, I am now giving life. Thanks to the teachings and trainings given to me here at the Farm University of the Enchanted Farm. There is still good magic in this world," he said.

Students like Jose will now enjoy added comfort at the Enchanted Farm after the GK foundation and the Monsato Philippines opened a 24-bed, two-storey dormitory at the heart of the forest known as “Batis ng mga Diwata”.

Meloto said that the site where the “dorm”, which is complete with a swimming pool with the thick forest as backdrop, was constructed in the spot that was believed to be the “center of positive energy,” in the Enchanted farm.

Rachel Lomibao, head of Monsato Philippines, said that this is part of their company’s community outreach program.

“Mosanto is committed to bringing a broad range of solution to help nourish our growing world. And with GK Enchanted Farm Village University as partner in this endeavor, the poor that have been already helped by Mr. Meloto and his volunteers will be helping raise many others from poverty through social enterprise that does not leave the poor behind,” Lomibao said.

Earlier, Governor Willhelmino M. Sy-Alvarado described the success of GK Enchanted Farm and Farm University as "magical".

“The place was once known as the hub of communist insurgents and supernaturals or “engkantos," now it is the hub of international communities learning the traditional Filipino culture of Bayanihan. This is not the story of princes and princesses but of ordinary folks, special scums of the slums, who made their dreams come true by fighting the monsters of poverty and surviving its challenges,” Alvarado said. (PNA)
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