Aim One Cagayan

Aim One Cagayan or AOC is a three-day Leadership and Entrepreneurship Training Seminar – this was the AOC when we started this.

After three years of AOC, it has another description. It was more than just training. AOC is a time when participants are immersed with their selves. AOC is a venue where participants are chiseled to become a new individual. AOC is a life changing experience.

AOC started as just an event for CDO-ASSET. Yes, it was to train individuals – but when the first AOC was implemented, I saw value in it. It was more than just a “job well done” for me. That feeling that you were there, helping that person become strong, confident, and aware of their capabilities and limitations. It was very rewarding.

I never expected that AOC will reach as far as three years. And now I believe that it will last for more years. I could say that because I was there since the very beginning, and I saw how the participants responded. I even heard them say that what they’ve experience was priceless and they never regretted that they joined the event.

Every year, it warms my heart, seeing the delegates change, talking to them about their experience, their plans to be facilitator for the next AOC, their get-together plans, them already excited for the next AOC as early as the day after the event, them running for office in different organizations, them now holding positions in big companies, them now CPAs, them owning businesses. 

AOC is a God’s grace. When this started, I never thought it would turn out this way. I never thought that we could get those speakers – Efren Penaflorida, Reese Fernandez, Sen. Chiz Escudero, Noreen Bautista, Bam Aquino, Brian Quebengco… google their names. There were backlogs but in the end, with God's grace, the event was successful.

To all those who shared the endeavor in organizing and continuing to pursue this event every year, thank you so much.

To those who are trying to bring us (CDO-ASSET) down, thank you. Because of you, we learned to be better and better.

To those who don’t believe in us, thank you. Because of you, we are inspired us to do more so we can soon somehow change your impression on us.

We aim to change Cagayan de Oro, Mindanao, and soon the Philippines. Maybe not now, but soon. I know the seeds that we’ve planted in every participant will grow and will nourish other’s heart.

To God be the greater glory. 

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