Goducate has a scholarship program in Laguna that helps to see needy students through their tertiary education. There are 24 scholars in the program for the 2013-14 academic year. It is one way by which Goducate helps the needy help themselves. Scholars are encouraged to help others. They do so by holding tutorials every Saturday morning for younger children in Laguna. The 33 children who attend these tutorials, both in academic subjects as well as in music, were featured in the book In the Shoes of a Filipino Child published last year by Goducate.
The leader of Scholars Group, Mariane, who has also been in charge of the tutorial program, is in her senior year at the Laguna State Polytechnic University studying for her Bachelor of Secondary Education, with English as her major. She was one of a few students selected by her university to do a 6-month internship in practical teaching of English at a Vietnamese university. She left on Oct 5 to teach at the Thai Nguyen University in northern Vietnam.
Mariane may have another chance to go abroad to brush up on her English. In July a visitor from Singapore offered her an opportunity to go to Singapore when she graduates, to attend a school that he and his wife run.
