EDUCATION
EDUCATION
Our Flagship Education Program
SIKAT, which means distinguished, prominent, and well-known in the vernacular, embodies EDC’s aspirations for its communities to have access to quality education that would enable them to become productive citizens and change-makers of the issues besetting our society. The company believes that investing in quality education regardless of their track, whether academic, technical-vocation, as well as talent or skill-based, will help transform the scholars into future change-drivers.

SIKAT could also be translated in Filipino into “sunshine” or “ray,” a necessary component to spur growth from seedlings into mature trees. This alternate meaning of the brand highlights the education program’s complementation with the company’s environment program, BINHI. The company aims to develop students who are not only competent but also socially and environmentally aware. It is also the company’s hope that the scholars will become future development partners and local champions of sustainability in their communities and spheres of influence.
Our Flagship Education Program
SIKAT, which means distinguished, prominent, and well-known in the vernacular, embodies EDC’s aspirations for its communities to have access to quality education that would enable them to become productive citizens and change-makers of the issues besetting our society. The company believes that investing in quality education regardless of their track, whether academic, technical-vocation, as well as talent or skill-based, will help transform the scholars into future change-drivers.

SIKAT could also be translated in Filipino into “sunshine” or “ray”, a necessary component to spur growth from seedlings into mature trees. This alternate meaning of the brand highlights the education program’s complementation with the company’s environment program, BINHI. The company aims to develop students who are not only competent but also socially and environmentally aware. It is also the company’s hope that the scholars will become future development partners and local champions of sustainability in their communities and spheres of influence.
Over the past five (5) years alone, the company supports the following education initiatives across the project sites:

189
Scholars
studied/studying at the University of the Philippines and various local state universities and colleges across all projects

77
Graduates
have been produced with 2 graduating as magna cum laude & 9 as cum laude

63
Public Schools
assisted during National Schools Maintenance Week or “Brigada Eskwela”

24,130
Elementary Learners
annual recipients of school supplies and other materials
Over the past five (5) years alone, the company supports the following education initiatives across the project sites:

189
Scholars
studied/studying at the University of the Philippines and various local state universities and colleges across all projects

77
Graduates
have been produced with 2 graduating as magna cum laude & 9 as cum laude

63
Public Schools
assisted during National Schools Maintenance Week or “Brigada Eskwela”

24,130
Elementary Learners
annual recipients of school supplies and other materials
EDC is also supporting two educational foundations
EDC is also supporting two educational foundations

KEITECH is a technical-vocational training center based in Leyte providing full scholarships and employment placement support after graduation to poor but deserving students. Since its establishment in 2009, the foundation has produced more than a thousand graduates in the construction sector, the metal and engineering sector, and the tourism services, with a 100% passing rate in all NC II competencies offered and a 96% employment rate.

MAFI has provided academic scholarship grants to 287 deserving youth in Mindanao since its establishment in 1993. Around 78% of all scholars of MAFI are from IP communities within the 20-km radius of Mt. Apo Natural Park (MANP).

KEITECH is a technical-vocational training center based in Leyte providing full scholarships and employment placement support after graduation to poor but deserving students. Since its establishment in 2009, the foundation has produced more than a thousand graduates in the construction sector, the metal and engineering sector, and the tourism services, with a 100% passing rate in all NC II competencies offered and a 96% employment rate.

MAFI has provided academic scholarship grants to 287 deserving youth in Mindanao since its establishment in 1993. Around 78% of all scholars of MAFI are from IP communities within the 20-km radius of Mt. Apo Natural Park (MANP).