Our goal is to secure State or Government level endorsement in every nation where GULL is supporting lifelong learning. This is so that GULL's global recognition has national identity in the form of a letter of support from an appropriate State, Government or Agency representative. The endorsement formats include: official letters, videographs, speeches and testimonials and also items from journals, magazines and newspapers. The main endorsement categories are: State & Government; Leaders and Institutions.
Sandals & Beaches
Managers and staff at Sandals Negril, Jamaica with the GULL certificates in April 2009. The company’s Group Director, Human Resources, Training & Service Standards said: “We are seeing transformed team members and they can’t keep it to themselves because they want others to experience GULL too”.
South East Asia
In June, 2010 Dato’ Dr Vincent Tang, GULL Regional President, South East Asia concluded a Memorandum of Understanding with a number of institutions who are now using the GULL system for personal, professional and organizational development. The launch event took place at the Grand Paragon hotel, Johor Bahru, Malaysia on 16 August, 2010 and the guest of honour was the local Member of Parliament.
Corporate Business School
The Right Honourable YB Sharifah Hasidan Sayeed Aman Ghazali MP (third from the left) endorses and supports the GULL corporate business school launch at the Hilton Hotel, Kuching, Sarawak, East Malaysia on 19 June 2009.
King of Surakarta
On 28 April, 2010, His Royal Highness KDYMM Sinuhun Paku Buwono XIII was inaugurated as GULL’s first Pro Chancellor. The King is a strong advocate of lifelong learning and he will serve as GULL’s champion for Indonesia, particularly for the large numbers of people who have limited or no access to further and higher education.
Papua New Guinea
Air Niugini, the state airline of Papua New Guinea, was the first company to adopt the GULL system with the aim of developing their own Academy for lifelong learning. CEO Wasantha Kumarasiri (second from left) anticipates that it will enable the airline to achieve advances in service delivery in the next few years. His aim is to enable all of the airline’s employees to participate.
Kenya
In September, 2009 leading non-government organizations began using the GULL system in Kenya and by September 2010, the number of participants in Kenya and East Africa had grown to some 500 people. These and other organizations in Kenya are working together to involve more of their staff and volunteers in GULL’s action learning process.
Compassion & World Vision
GULL works for World Vision because we need a way, outside of direct remuneration, to motivate local partner volunteers… the ones who are in direct contact with the children we seek to empower. We know that if the development of their life skills and their life purpose is on track, they will do a better job of nurturing life skills and life purpose in the children they work with. It works for Compassion International and others for the same reasons.
State & Government - Formal endorsement letters from Government Ministers and other State or Government officials |
Leaders - Endorsements from organizational leaders, specialists and other expert sources |
Institutions - Endorsements on behalf of organizations, including GULL system users |