THE ROTARY–KALUPPÂ CENTER
Growing Skills, Livelihoods, and Leaders Through Community-Built Education
A purpose-built learning space where rural families gain practical skills, new opportunities, and the confidence to shape their own future.
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The Rotary–Kaluppâ Agricultural Enterprise & Tech Center stands as Kaluppâ Foundation’s first purpose-built classroom dedicated to free and accessible technical-vocational education in agriculture, barista skills, and rural enterprise. Co-developed with the Rotary Club of Metro Valenzuela, this Center brings training closer to communities that need it most, creating a walkable, trusted, values-anchored environment where learning becomes livelihood.
By offering technical-vocational programs, hands-on agri-enterprise training, and a culture grounded in Rotary’s Four-Way Test, the Center helps communities improve production, youth discover career pathways, mothers launch micro-enterprises, and alumni return to mentor the next generation. This is a community asset where rural families gain skills, dignity, and real opportunities for income and resilience.
Supporting UN Sustainable Development Goals
The Classroom, Defined
The Classroom, Defined
The Rotary–Kaluppâ Agricultural Enterprise & Tech Center is co-developed by Kaluppâ Foundation and the Rotary Club of Metro Valenzuela. Launched with a groundbreaking on March 1, 2024 and inaugurated on July 1, 2025, it was hailed as “a beacon of hope for our local farmers, youth, and underserved communities.”
The Center is a purpose-built, community run learning space for free and accessible technical vocational education and training (TVET) in sustainable agriculture, entrepreneurship, and livelihood development, integrating Rotary’s Four Way Test to shape principled leaders as well as skilled workers.
What Happens Here
What Happens Here
Hands-on, competency-based training that maps directly to work: from nursery operations and crop care to harvest, post-harvest, and enterprise practice.
Short and long TVET courses, including Agricultural Crops Production (ACP) NC II, Organic Agriculture Production NC II, Barista NC II, and Horticulture NC III, ladderized for continued upskilling.
Structured for scale and safety: a dedicated, all-weather classroom with appropriate electrical, lighting, ventilation, and stormwater features to support year round practical sessions.
Community governance via the Kaluppâ Foundation Alumni Association, ensuring sustainability, transparency, and a peer mentored culture of learning-by-doing.
Who We Serve
Who We Serve
Kaluppâ’s work begins in the neighboring barangays of Santa Cruz, communities where many families live on limited income, adults often juggle work with unfinished schooling, and young people are still finding their direction. By staying close to home, literally within walking distance, the Rotary-Kaluppâ Center makes learning accessible, culturally familiar, and rooted in real community needs. This hyperlocal focus ensures that opportunities aren’t just offered, but truly reachable.
Even as Santa Cruz is our home base, our doors are open province‑wide. Anyone from any barangay in Marinduque is welcome to join our programs, participate in hands‑on learning, and gain practical skills that translate into better livelihoods and stronger communities.
Partner Spotlight: Rotary Club of Metro Valenzuela
Partner Spotlight: Rotary Club of Metro Valenzuela
This Center is a testament to Rotary’s “People of Action” ethos. As a flagship initiative for Rotary Year 2023–2024, Rotary Club of Metro Valenzuela co-built a values anchored classroom, integrated the Four Way Test into learner formation, and convened Rotarians, Rotaractors, and local leaders, to inaugurate a community asset that converts ideals into livelihoods.
Groundbreaking & MOA: March 1, 2024 — at the Kaluppâ Integrated Farm, led by Hope Creating President Edward Bacorro, with Rotarians, Rotaractors, and NGA partners present.
Inauguration: July 1, 2025 — the classroom is formally opened as a beacon of hope for farmers, youth, and underserved communities, and as a venue for values based technical education.
With this project, Rotary Club of Metro Valenzuela amplified access to practical learning, strengthened ethics in enterprise through the Four Way Test, and helped convert a local vision into a functioning, future proof training center.
From a Vision to a Classroom: The Speed of Purposeful Action
From a Vision to a Classroom: The Speed of Purposeful Action
In a sector where plans often stall, Kaluppâ and Rotary moved with purpose and velocity. Here’s how the vision became the Rotary–Kaluppâ Agricultural Enterprise & Tech Center in record time:
June 2022: Revival and re-development of a 10 hectare agricultural land.
September 2022: Official foundation registration and funding for a 60 sqm plant nursery.
November 2022: TESDA registration; first cohort of 15 scholars begins training.
February 8, 2023: First batch graduates—proof of concept that builds trust.
April 20, 2023: Agri training funding secured again; 22 scholar second cohort launches, showing momentum and scalability.
May 2023: Work Immersion Partnership with DepEd—cementing trust as an educational institution.
December 27, 2023: Kaluppâ Foundation becomes an ATI‑certified Coconut‑Based Learning Site for Agriculture, strengthening its capacity to deliver specialized, community‑based agricultural training.
March 1, 2024: Groundbreaking ceremony for the Rotary–Kaluppâ Agricultural Enterprise & Tech Center with Rotary Club of Metro Valenzuela.
July 1, 2025: Inauguration of the Center—celebrated as a “beacon of hope” for farmers, youth, and underserved communities.
When communities and values driven partners move together, plans become programs, and programs become paychecks today, not years from now.
What Transformation Looks Like (Up Close)
What Transformation Looks Like (Up Close)
At the Rotary–Kaluppâ Center, transformation begins long before the first class opens. It starts with a vision, grows through collaboration, and becomes real in the lives of the families we serve.
A Vision That Took Root
A Vision That Took Root
What began as a dream on a rehabilitated piece of farmland is now a clear pathway for rural families to learn, grow, and build livelihood.
Partnership in Action
Partnership in Action
Partners who believed in the mission, like the Rotary Club of Metro Valenzuela, moved the work forward.
A Dream Made Real
A Dream Made Real
The Rotary–Kaluppâ Center now stands as a working classroom where skills are learned, values are lived, and opportunities open every day.
Our Next Frontier: A Permanent Tech Hub for Digital Learning
Our Next Frontier: A Permanent Tech Hub for Digital Learning
As Kaluppâ continues to strengthen technical–vocational pathways in agriculture and enterprise, we are also visioning the Rotary–Kaluppâ Center as a permanent home for digital empowerment. The Center is being prepared to host a dedicated Tech Hub for Digital Literacy—a space equipped for basic to advanced digital skills training, computer fundamentals, online work readiness, and technology‑enabled livelihood programs.
This future Tech Hub will complement our expanding digital literacy programs in rural communities, allowing us to support learners not only where they live, but also within a centralized facility built for consistent, high‑quality delivery.
By anchoring digital learning inside the Rotary–Kaluppâ Center, we aim to:
Provide accessible, year-round digital training for youth, farmers, mothers, and jobseekers
Strengthen rural readiness for online work, e-commerce, digital agriculture, and tech‑enabled livelihoods
Offer a safe, equipped environment where first‑time learners can build confidence using technology
Ensure that digital skills acquired in barangay-based outreach programs have a continuation pathway here in the Center
This vision aligns with the Center’s purpose as a future‑proof, community‑anchored training facility, where practical skills and modern competencies come together. The Tech Hub will be a natural extension of our commitment to ensure that the people of Marinduque are digitally ready, economically empowered, and never left behind.
Be part of the transformation.
Be part of the transformation.
The Rotary–Kaluppâ Agricultural Enterprise & Tech Center is now open, a community-built classroom offering free, accessible TVET training in agriculture, barista skills, horticulture, and more.
You can move this work forward.
Volunteer, enroll, mentor, or support a scholar; your participation helps build a more self‑reliant Marinduque.
Become a partner in our mission. Connect with us today.
Email: education@kaluppa.org Facebook: facebook.com/kaluppaph
Contact
+63 042 332-2126
Kaluppâ Integrated Farm, Barangay Pantayin, Santa Cruz, Marinduque, 4902 Philippines
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