With education as a cornerstone, the school will foster cultural, economic, and ecological sustainability. This will be accomplished by operating a residential senior high school and a university college for as many as 1,000 students learning in an environmentally integrated fashion, comprised of equal number of men and women. GOSESO integrates academic scholarship and the involvement of local people to create a GOSESO curriculum strongly shaped by practical needs assessments and the involvement of indigenous knowledge. Currently, school facilities are planned in the heart of Kitobe Forest that will accommodate 1,000 students. Half the student body will reside on campus, while the remainder will be day students from nearby villages.
Enrollment priority will be given to applicants who have demonstrated a deep
concern for local ecosystems and human communities. Tuition for the school
will be assessed on a sliding scale, based on each family’s ability
to pay. For economically disadvantaged students, we plan to seek philanthropic
funds to provide scholarships. We anticipate that the combination of scholarship
and tuition revenue will make the school fiscally sustainable.