For inquiries, please send us an email at [email protected] or contact us directly through our page. NATURE: Youth Facilitating Team & Community-based Organization
Originally, the “group” was just an informal gathering of long-time friends, friends who had one thing in common—facilitating and leading. They were poised with the question: who were they if they were a team. With that que
stion lingering, another funny twist of the team’s history was developing. The use of the word gaba-an within the group. This became popular after months of making jollity of remarking gaba-an practically in all conversations and occasions. Eventually, this fun practice was caught by others in the community. The group was easily identified as the Gaba-an Youth Lead. The word gabâ, for people in many parts of the Philippines, is a concept of a non-human and non-divine, imminent retribution, a sort of negative karma. Gabâ is generally seen as an evil effect on a person because of their wrongdoings or transgressions (gaba-an). Some sociologists believe that gabâ is one of the causes of complacency: because of the belief in it, they prefer to be silent on abuses. It gives hope to the oppressed that someday the abuses will be paid for. What started as a fun exchange by friends of remarking gaba-an coupled with the nature of the friendship (youth leaders, animators, facilitators, and speakers) became a genuine facilitating team who now offers several programs for the youth for different agencies and units in government and the private sector. Gaba-an Youth Lead in the onset was just a byword, a joke as if to signify a vision by the circle, what if we can indeed be a youth facilitating team, is now a true youth lead sharing their expertise to their fellow youths. The fullness of the concept was later realized that we as the Gaba-an Youth Lead should give hope to our young as they embark in a very cruel world. We know for a fact that no human being wants naturally to suffer; however, the inevitable reality is there; most of our young are deprived with opportunities. We as a facilitating team believes that in every opportunity that the young will be trained— to lead, to facilitate, and to manage—definitely, they can boldly face the hurdles of tomorrow. We strive hard as a team to be the best facilitators of youth programs so that the young will never be complacent again. All youths will be confident of who they are, free from the concept of being gaba-an. We have been there, we know how it feels. We were lifted from that misery before because we were blessed so much from the many programs we were part of. It is payback time then, we are here the Gaba-an Youth Lead, offering you another road where fun and learning can go hand in hand. NOTABLE PROJECTS AND CLIENTS:
NATIONAL LEARNERS’ CONVERGENCE & NATIONAL CAREER EXPO 2025
Participants: 2700 delegates
Venue: Dumaguete City
Activity: Deped National SSLG Convergence
Date: October 27-30, 2025
PALARONG PAMBANSA NATION OF HEROES
Participants: 1000 Athletes
Venue: Cebu City
Activity: Deped National Youth Formation Summit
Date: July 13, 2024
MAGNUS RENEWABLE TECH CORP. Participants: 200
Venue: Metro Manila / Batangas
Activity: Teamwork Enhancement
Date: October 17-19, 2024
CEBU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY (CTU)
Participants: 100
Venue: Tuburan, Cebu
Activity: Faculty and Staff Teamwork Enhancement
Date: July 9, 2024
YLT PROGRAM ON WASH CURRICULUM
Venue: Tacloban City, Leyte
Activity: Org Advancement Training (GYL as participants)
Date: August 22-24, 2023
SAMAHAN NG MGA BATANG BAYANI
Participants: 700 participants
Venue: Moises Padilla, Negros Occidental
Activity: Children’s Summit
Date: January 19-20, 2024
JOINT TASK FORCE TAWI-TAWI YOUTH LEADERSHIP SUMMIT 2023
Participants: 150 participants
Venue: Bungao, Tawi-Tawi
Activity: Philippine Marines Youth Leadership Summit
Date: March 25-26, 2023
SULU YOUTH LEADERSHIP SUMMIT
Participants: 100 participants
Venue: Panamao, Sulu
Activity: Philippine Marines MBLT7 YLS
Date: May 30-31, 2022
15TH INFANTRY BATTALION YOUTH SUMMIT
Participants: 700 plus participants
Venue: Kauswagan, Lanao Del Norte
Activity: Mindanao Youth Summit
Date: October 2014 and 2016
NATION OF HEROES: DEPED-NIR YOUTH FORMATION SUMMIT
Participants: 5,000 participants
Venue: Mabinay, Amlan, Canlaon City (Negros Oriental) & La Carlota City (Negros Occidental
Activity: National Youth Summit
Date: October (annual)
YOLO: DEPED-NIR SSG/SPC LEADERSHIP CAMP
Participants: 2000 plus participants
Venue: Valencia, Mabinay, and Dumaugete (Negros Oriental)
Activity: National Youth Summit
Date: June and July (annual
PINTEREST (PROJECT INTEREST): CAREER DEVELOPMENT CAMP
Participants: 50 campers (graduating high school students)
Venue: Ronda, Cebu
Activity: Career Development Camp
Date: May 17-18, 2014
TATAK YOUTH SUMMIT
Participants: 3,000 participants
Venue: Bais City, Negros Oriental
Activity: Provincial Youth Summit
Date: September 21-22, 2013
LAYAT KO ‘TO PINOY YOUTH SUMMIT
Participants: 2,000 participants
Venue: Mabinay, Negros Oriental
Activity: Provincial Youth Summit
Date: December 15-16, 2012
