Last week Goducate country representatives, the headquarters team, Goducate partners, Goducate Training Center staff and trainees, and invited guests attended the 4-day Third Goducate Summit, which was held at the Goducate Training Center in Iloilo. The country representatives came from Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Those from Malaysia and Myanmar were unable to be present.
Country representatives as well as project leaders and consultants in specialist areas of work shared their experiences, mistakes, and lessons learnt, while headquarters staff shared dreams for the future, drove home good management and accounting practices, and reminded the audience about internet security. Each day closed with a lively question-and-answer session.
The “real” business, though, was conducted on the day after the summit ended, during focus-group meetings. These were led by project leaders in various areas of work—such as agriculture, livelihood training, sports, music, English teaching, etc. During these sessions, those specially interested in following up such work were able to clarify in greater detail what they wanted to know.
The meeting was a chance for Goducate workers to share ideas about how best to help the needy help themselves in various ways. For the present batch of trainees it was an opportunity to learn about Goducate work in different countries, and to talk face-to-face with the country representatives of places they might like to work in when they finish their training.
