This year’s trainees at Goducate Training Center in Iloilo, Philippines, will be graduating in December. There are almost 50 of them who would have finished their 6-month training by Dec 14.
About 20 of them will be serving as community development workers in China, Indonesia, and Cambodia. Another 5 of them will join Goducate Training Center as staff. And the rest will return to serve in their communities in different parts of the Philippines.
In 2013, Goducate Training Center will be taking in 2 batches of students. The first batch will be trained from January to May to be teachers of English. The will undergo courses such as TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language), accent neutralization, counselling, community work, cross-cultural studies, and mentoring. After completing their training, they will be sent to needy communities in other Asian countries to serve as English teachers.
The second batch of trainees will be trained from June to December to be community development workers. In addition to the training that the English teachers will receive, they will receive training in agriculture. Since many of the communities that they will serve are backward rural communities struggling to feed themselves, an understanding of agriculture is vital.
To prepare for 2013, Goducate Training Center has built additional dormitories and a mess-hall. The ladies’ dormitory will be able to house about 70 trainees and the men’s dormitory about 35. The mess-hall will seat about 70 trainees for meals.
As Goducate’s work expands, the demand for English teachers and community development workers continues to grow. Goducate Training Center must continue to produce enough workers to help needy Asians help themselves.