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Goducate Training Center starts training even before it’s built

We are presently frantically trying to get the necessary building materials on to the site of the Goducate Training Center before the rains make it impossible for heavy laden trucks to enter the site. Thankfully, the rains that have been flooding the rest of the Philippines and the neighbouring areas around our site have not
dropped on our site!

We had originally planned to take in our first intake of trainees at the end of the year when the Multi-Purpose Hall (MPH) is completed. However, when we saw the plight of our neighbours – the poor, subsistence rice-farmers – we decided to start training them first!

The Camp Goducate seminar on hybrid rice production on July 24 at the Sto. Angel Barangay Hall is all set.  Thirty farmers are attending along with 30 observers (barangay officials, guests, speakers, and facilitators). Mayor Victor Saclauso, Provincial Board Member Demy Sonza (representing the 2nd district of Iloilo that includes the town of San Miguel), Department of Agriculture Regional Director Larry
Nacionales, and Dean Reynaldo Dusaran of the CPU College of Agriculture, Resources, and Environmental Sciences have signified their intention to be at the seminar site on July 24. Already the people of Sto. Angel are ecstatic that some VIPs are coming to their place.

Goducate Training Center hopes to help Asians help themselves – even before it’s ready to receive its “official” trainees!

Charity begins at “home”!

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Goducate India first project

Goducate India kicks off its first project in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, by offering English classes and communication classes to college students.

Andhra Pradesh (AP) is India’s fifth most populous state – with a population of 80 million people. The capital of AP is the ultra-progressive city of Hyderabad – with it’s world class IT industry. However, in the rural areas of AP, 30 million farmers struggle to just to survive.

Goducate India plans to start in Hyderabad and then move into the rural areas, where there is great need for education, especially, in scientific, small-scale agricultural practices.

Our Goducate volunteer, Mrs Jayamala, is a seasoned English teacher who has taught in India and in our Goducate work in Jogjakarta, Indonesia. She will conduct her classes in a school, whose owner is a friend of Goducate.

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Goducate Seminar for Indonesian school teachers

A team from Goducate Indonesia, led by its Founder Paul Choo, conducted a seminar on teaching in Batam, Indonesia.

About 100 teachers from seven schools under an Indonesian educational NGO (in English called “New Sprouts”) attended the seminar on the Principles of Teaching.

“New Sprouts” is one of the educational NGO’s in Indonesia that send their students to Goducate’s English classes and to our monthly English camp (called CEI – Camping English International).

After the seminar, our Goducate Batam workers shared with the teachers how their students could benefit from our English and computer training.

Dr Paul Choo with principals of 7 Indonesian schools
Dr Paul Choo with principals of 7 Indonesian schools