Goducate’s country leaders and project leaders from the different countries that we serve in stayed on after the official opening of the Goducate Training Center on Feb 11 for a three-day Goducate “summit”, to tell each other about their work and to plan together for the future. The leaders came from China, Cambodia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, and The Philippines. It was Goducate’s second international meeting, the first having been held in Singapore three years ago.
For most of the participants, it was the first time for them to meet each other face to face. Previously, they had only read about each other’s work—mostly through this website.
On the first day the project leaders told about their projects. On the second day, we hosted 200 guests who are involved in helping communities, to tell them more about our work and about how Goducate Training Center could help train creative community development workers. On the last day, the project leaders shared their “dreams” for 2012.
Some new potential additions to the team also attended the meeting. These are extremely talented men who are keen to start new projects for Goducate.
Our outcome-expectations for this Summit were: bonding of the Goducate team, sharing of experiences, and aligning of our plans for 2012. I believe that we met these expectations.
I believe 2012 will be a breakthrough year for Goducate because many of our projects are now tried and tested and ready for “scaling up”.
We hope to see Goducate helping many more Asians help themselves this year.