Happy Bicol Trip - 7 Feb 2008
...posting Doc Joen's sharing of her GKal experience in Bicol
Hello everyone,
Joanne and I are here in Bicol after our 2 day visit in Libmannan village. This is a real wonderful village, with the spirited caretaker team very much into community empowerment. The project directors are very hospitable, so nice!!! and have great experiences in their community development. They also have their own CO who is taking a 3year certifcate course in Ateneo on Community development. This is the village previously handled by heather. 75 beneficiaries, with on going build. Ten+ HCVs. We have convinced the GK Health representative to be the GKal Manager but are in need of our assistance and training. Also the parish priest and the RHU are very active in the community, the latter conducting training for the HCVs 2x a month. Another good thing, the HCVs go on duty at the Health center once a week as training for the clinic they are about to open. I also sense behavioral changes from the people with much hope for their future. Indeed the care-taker team instills in them that they have to believe they are capable because in the future they will have to stand on their own...something I dont see and I am looking for in other communities. So this is a promising community and a promising region...hope we can have this region as one template in our strategies in spreading our GKAl work.
Praise God for all the blessings we had from this trip and the coming more weenjoy for our last day. our agenda now is to go to Iriga to see their village and to talk to UNEP and to another school. Happy!
God bless.
Joen
Hello everyone,
Joanne and I are here in Bicol after our 2 day visit in Libmannan village. This is a real wonderful village, with the spirited caretaker team very much into community empowerment. The project directors are very hospitable, so nice!!! and have great experiences in their community development. They also have their own CO who is taking a 3year certifcate course in Ateneo on Community development. This is the village previously handled by heather. 75 beneficiaries, with on going build. Ten+ HCVs. We have convinced the GK Health representative to be the GKal Manager but are in need of our assistance and training. Also the parish priest and the RHU are very active in the community, the latter conducting training for the HCVs 2x a month. Another good thing, the HCVs go on duty at the Health center once a week as training for the clinic they are about to open. I also sense behavioral changes from the people with much hope for their future. Indeed the care-taker team instills in them that they have to believe they are capable because in the future they will have to stand on their own...something I dont see and I am looking for in other communities. So this is a promising community and a promising region...hope we can have this region as one template in our strategies in spreading our GKAl work.
Praise God for all the blessings we had from this trip and the coming more weenjoy for our last day. our agenda now is to go to Iriga to see their village and to talk to UNEP and to another school. Happy!
God bless.
Joen
posted by grace @ 9:51 AM
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