On June 17, 2013, 17 graduates of the Goducate Training Centre (GTC) in Iloilo, Philippines, passed through Singapore on their way to Batam, Indonesia. For many of them it was the first time leaving the Philippines, so their excitement was evident.
The 17 are the second batch of GTC graduates to be attending the Goducate Language Centre in Batam, where they will spend 3 months learning “survival” Bahasa Indonesia and Indonesian culture before they are sent out to various parts of Indonesia to serve as community development workers. Goducate believes that there is no better way to learn a language than through immersion, so their training in Batam will not be confined to classroom teaching. The students will be interacting with the locals to practise their Bahasa and to experience the local culture firsthand.
