Goducate Training Center (GTC) in Iloilio, Philippines, is Goducate’s “university” for training its future leaders.
Recently I was there to participate in one of its “leadership camps”. There were 240 trainees who attended the 3-day session on leadership, the vast majority being university students or recent graduates. I hope that many of these will catch the vision of helping needy Asians to help themselves and enrol for Goducate’s full-time training program to prepare themselves to serve in poor communities throughout Asia.
The present pilot batch of 20 full-time trainees have just completed their 6-month training program. Some of these graduates will stay on as staff and trainers at GTC, while others will be sent out to communities in the Philippines, China, and Indonesia in the near future.
In 2012, we plan to enrol about 100 full-time trainees who will be trained in cross-cultural studies, foreign languages, agriculture, community health, literacy, livelihood skills, music, self-defence, etc. We hope that the training will instill in all our graduates not only the desire but also the ability to help Asians help themselves.
