Gulayan sa Paaralan
Program
Canluto Elementary School
VISION
We are a leading resource institution that promotes innovation, sustainability,
citizens empowerment and excellence… through Gulayan sa Paaralan at Bahay
Program.
MISSION
We promote excellence and food security in the school and community through
recognition, sharing of information and support of efforts to replicate best practice and also
encourage partnerships among PTA’s, NGO’s, LGU’s to improve the quality of life of the
Barangay people particularly Canluto Elementary School.
CANLUTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL GULAYAN SA PAARALAN
PROGRAM
AIMS:
“If you FEED a child well, you can help him think well”.
Strong, intelligent and capable people usually have one thing in common: good
nutrition at an early age. Canluto Elementary School, School head Judy V. Carollo realized
this early upon his transfer to the new /institution.
The concept way was simple, parents were given technical assistance through skills
training on natural farming system and support of vegetable seedlings to be planted on
unused lots at home.
Before: Gulayan sa Paaralan Program (GPP) of Canluto Elementary School devoted
almost a half hectare for vegetables production and fails to produce a vast harvest due to
the presence of big armor rock on the area. Upon the strong plan and implementation of
our new school head, (Judy V. Carollo) former “Hall of Famer” of GPAK Program in our
Province, Negros Oriental. (Malacañang Palace Awardee Teacher Implementor Category),
big changes happen.
“If you feed a child well, you can help him think well”. That is what we are doing
through Gulayan sa Paaralan Program, GPP.
It’s an amazing factor contributed to our school, wherein there is an increase of area
at .25 hectare intended for vegetables production, through contour farming by removing
and using the big armor rocks as a blocking strategy for soil erosion.
GPP thus helped solved the Malnutrition problem in Barangay Canluto particularly Canluto
Elementary School children, with cases steadily falling from 14 (wasted and severely
wasted) to 0 pupils at 100% recovery based on the End Line Nutritional Data.
GPP also helps promote environmental protection by teaching students and parents’
environment-friendly technologies such as the implementation of natural farming system.
Food produced under the program are thus safer and more nutritious, thus for a reason of
food safety and security.
As an offshoot of the program, parents are now being encouraged to cultivate their own
vegetable gardens at home. The seedlings are being distributed during getting and
retrieving of modules with the pandemic situation.
The Parents Teachers Association (PTA) have volunteered to conduct information drive in
starting vegetable gardens at home and also share their times to support school gardening
during Saturdays.
Canluto Elementary School have also benefitted from the program through income and it
will fund and support to various schools’ projects.
While ongoing GPP implementation, it has already taken a life of its own. The community
has started owning the program and has been creative in solving their own problems.
