Last year Goducate published a book, “In the Shoes Of a Filipino Child”, in which 30 children in Goducate programs in Laguna, Philippines, wrote about their experiences and their aspirations. These children now have a carrot dangling before them. A Goducate supporter has offered to provide the fees for the tertiary education of any of these children who make it to that level. Three of these children are already benefiting from this offer. They are attending the Laguna State Polytechnic University. Two are studying information technology and one elementary education.
To help the others reach tertiary education, Saturday day tutorial classes for them were started in mid-July. Existing Goducate scholars (university students who are on Goducate scholarships) are the tutors who help the students with whatever subjects they are having difficulty with in school.
On the first Saturday, the students were asked about their dreams, which they wrote down, then read out. Their dreams included becoming a teacher, policeman, flight attendant, and other white-collar jobs.
Goducate hopes that these children will learn to appreciate the importance of an education in realizing their dreams, and that they can use their education to help themselves and others as well.
