Goducate Training Center in Iloilo, Philippines, has been training its pioneer batch of 20 over trainees since April.
The training includes: basic agriculture, sloping agricultural land techniques, teaching adult literacy, teaching English to speakers of other languages, counseling, driving, self-defence, cooking.
The lecturers come from different countries, backgrounds and disciplines. Cross-cultural training is essential because the workers may have to work abroad. If so, they need to quickly understand the people they work with, and more importantly, to be readily accepted by the new community.
The objective is to produce Goducate workers who can work among the needy to help them help themselves, not just at home but also anywhere where needed.
