Very Interesting and Insightful Vocational Visits an Inspiration to the GSE Team!

 The Philippine Rotary District of 3860 has really
worked very hard to provide extraordinary vocational visits for the GSE team. The depth and variety of the visits has been very much appreciated by the team.


Pictured right is Kylie with award winning chief photographer, Alex Badayas, from the largest community newspaper in Cebu.

Kylie was excited to meet famous Filipino (and world recognised) magazine and advertising photographer Ted Madamba. Much discussion took place re techniques, marketing, commerce and future opportunities!!
Go Kyles!!

Rebecca was most interested in visiting the Legal Alternatives for Women Centre. This Centre works to assist marginalised women from all forms of discrimination, abuse and exploitation.


Bec is pictured here with legal services officer Mel Yu (2nd on right) and executive director Lolet Alino (3rd on left).












Another pic visiting the Women and Children Protection Regional Office in Cebu. Standing to the left of Rebecca is Chief Superintendent Milagros Soukno.

David was most impressed with the a visit to the RCBC (Rural community Bank of Cebu) and it's 'state of the art' EBIZ Centre! This electronic Biz Hub is open 24 hours, has wifi facilities, telephone & internet banking, two ATMs and a Bill Payment System!!
Certainly food for thought for Westpac (particularly the Strathfield Branch!!!)

 A view from the street!

Ian was able to fit in various visits to different schools to discuss how the children are engaged in their learning.
Almost all elementary schools were involved with 'discovery' learning where Bloom's Taxonomy and Cooperative Learning Strategies are applied.

Pictured here is Ian with with a kinder group in a private school of 300 students named 'The Marie Ernestine School' (named after it's founder). The curriculum based on Cooperative learning.

A delightful experience!

Another pic of Ian with the principal of Cebu International School, Deidre Fischer (an Aussie and Rotarian!).
This school has around 700 students from Kinder to year 12 and is considered to be one of the best schools in the Philippines. Over 70% of students are children of expatriates, living in Cebu.
The teaching methods, curriculum and assessment bench marking are similar to Australia.
This fee paying school has magnificent resources and was seen to be far superior to anything seen as yet!

 Martin is pictured here visiting another fire station (!!) and posing with rather 'outdated' masking equipment, which is the 'standard' in Cebu. Clearly, the Fire Brigades of Australia are much more resourced than their colleagues in Cebu! (This indeed is an understatement!!)

The Cebu fire fighters were very interested in techniques, processes and equipment used in Australia.
In this pic, Marty held a captive audience showing them fire fighting images of Australia from his USB!
They were incredibly impressed with the range of equipment used in Australia.









The team now is preparing for the 2011 3860 District Conference Opening!! More soon.