A pet project of Hon. George P. Arnaiz, Congressman of the 2 nd District of Negros Oriental with the vision of an Organic Negros in the near future. It educated farmers on the basics of organic farming with the growing concern of the ill-effects of lifestyle diseases, climate change and global warming that is now affecting our planet earth.
            To transfer the technology of organic farming to the agriculture teachers in the public schools, a joint 10-Day Training/Workshop of the Dumaguete City and Tanjay City Divisions was held last August 17 -21, 2009 and August 24 – 28, 2009, at Sta. Cruz Elementary School, Tanjay City by the organic farming experts of the province. The training/workshop included hands-on practicum in mixing organic fertilizers, pesticides, insecticides, vermiculture, plant propagation, and modern technology of growing different kinds of crops.
            Each of the 15 elementary and 7 secondary schools in the division sent their agriculture teacher. Aside from learning the technology of organic farming, the participants were given free morning and afternoon snacks and lunch and an educational tour to the organic farm of Cong. George P. Arnaiz in Pamplona, Negros Oriental.

          A Livelihood project of the office of then provincial governor now Congressman of the 2 nd District, Hon. George P. Arnaiz, and sustained by the incumbent Governor, Hon. Emilio C. Macias, II, through the Department of Agriculture. Evaluation is done yearly with cash prizes as much as P100,000.00 for the 1 st Prize, P50,000.00 for the 2 nd Prize, and P25,000.00 for the 3 rd Prize.
          Since SY 2006 – 2007 when public schools were encouraged to participate, Dumaguete City Division has already garnered two (2) 3 rd Places and just last school year, Junob National High School got the 2 nd Place with a Cash Prize of P50,000.00 for the expansion of the school’s GPAK project.
          For SY 2009 – 2010, the City Agriculturist Office has Identified ten (10) GPAK Schools in the City Division. GPAK Schools will be subjected to unannounced evaluation to monitor the progress and the sustainability of the food security program (FSP) through organic farming, as well as the impact of the technology transfer from school to the community. Hence, school community gardens are also part of the final evaluation.
          The Department of Agriculture and the City Agriculturist’s Office provided garden tools, seeds, fish fingerlings, plating materials and technical assistance to the GPAK schools, Designated DA Coordinators/Technicians are assigned in each school to monitor and to give technical assistance to the agriculture teachers. The Department of Agriculture does the final evaluation to determine the best GPAK Implementer of the year. An Orientation Seminar on Tilapia Culture to GPAK Palaisdaan Implementers was also conducted last September 2, 2009 at the Plaza Central School, Tanjay City.
          Other non-GPAK schools are maintaining their school vegetable gardens and animal/fish production to help sustain the supplementary feeding program for the undernourished pupils and students in their respective schools.

         Project is REACH is an acronym which means REaching All CHildren. This project supports the National EFA goals of 2015. The four (4) major challenges of the projects are:

                  * FIND children who are not in school;
                  * REACH them;
                  * KEEP them in school; and
                  * MAKE them complete school

         This project is encouraging synergy of efforts between the school and the community. It mobilizes officials and personnel, strengthens and sustains stakeholders partnership and increase public awareness of the community in their involvement of the education of children.