A groundbreaking ceremony for the Home for the Faithful was held on August 21. The Home is to be built within the grounds of the Goducate Training Center in Iloilo. It is intended to provide a place where long-serving volunteers who have nowhere to retire to can spend the rest of their lives with dignity. The idea is that the Home will also be a place where they can still contribute to the community, perhaps through activities such as simple gardening, giving talks, and mentoring and counseling younger people. How else they will be able to contribute will be part of a learning curve for Goducate.
The target date for the Home to be ready for occupancy is mid-2020. It will be able to accommodate about 40 people.
The Home for the Faithful also targets to inspire communities to care for the elderly and to motivate senior citizens to grow old with dignity and purpose. Furthermore, as with all Goducate projects, the Home will be the start of a movement—-in this case, that of helping needy senior Asians help themselves.
Our guest writer is, Carmela Damaso, a senior development trainer.