Category: China

Goducate, with its mission of helping young adults in China to help themselves, has opened a second Lifepegs student activity center in southern China. The new center is located in one of the city’s major campus districts with a student population of 60,000 to 70,000 from 8 universities.

The core team of 3 native workers trained by Goducate worked hard to renovate and get the center started within 28 days. They were supported by volunteers in the city who had longed for such a set-up where they could get opportunities to acquire lifeskills and an education that goes far beyond their university or their individual abilities.

The new center is geared towards providing members with essential lifeskills education, unique opportunities for healthy relationships, and new and exciting modes of recreation. Most of all, it aims to position itself as the “Ultimate Choice for Outdoor Activities”, like none other!
Whether it is a basketball tournament, rock-wall climbing, a workshop on leadership or financial management, a mountain hiking adventure or a trip to scenic places for camping, each activity is meant to teach a lifeskill as well as provide some new and exciting experiences whilst participants get to know each other and find a lasting and enthusiastic group of friends.

The new center also hopes to invite members to take part in a leadership training program that evaluates the development of their leadership skills and presents them with opportunities to lead activities. Some of these trained leaders who believe in the philosophy of the student activity centers may be involved in the expansion plan in other parts of China.

Since 2009, Lifepegs, Goducate’s international lifeskill-based activity center for young adults in a city in Northeast China, has:

– maintained relationship with current 1700 active members;
– hosted total of 7 four-week English Summer camps;
– organized more than 600 activities reaching out to more than 8000 young adults;
– started on-campus-societies in 6 universities.

The center is geared towards providing members with essential life skills education, unique opportunities for healthy relationships, and new and exciting recreation.

Every activity from rock wall climbing to learning about financial management to traveling to a distant city is meant to teach a life skill as well as provide some new and exciting experiences whilst they get to know each other and find a lasting and enthusiastic group of friends.

Members are also invited to take part in a leadership training program which evaluates the development of their leadership skills and presents them with opportunities to lead activities. Some of these trained leaders believed in the philosophy and dreamt about setting up more Student Activity Centres in other parts of China. And, their dream has indeed come true!

Right now, as you are reading this article, two core teams of 6 native workers trained by Goducate are working hard to set up two Student Activity Centres in southern China. These new centres aim to help more than 60,000-70,000 students from 8 universities in one city, and in another, 50000+ students from 3 major universities.

Goducate has achieved its mission of helping these young adults in China to help themselves as they seize the opportunities to acquire life skills and an education that goes far beyond their university or their individual abilities.

Moreover, they are now transferring what they have learnt and passed on to their fellow folks a set of adventures that they can truly hang their lives on!

Several of our Lifepegs volunteers have been spending part of their winter break in Singapore. Most of them are teachers of English at universities in northeast China. One of their evenings here was spent at the Goducate office. It was a time for them and the Goducate headquarters team to get to know each other, for them to tell us about their experiences in China, and for them to learn something about Goducate work outside of China.

Lifepegs is an international lifeskills activity club based in Changchun, Jilin Province. Most of its members come from the 70 or so universities in the area. On top of that there are several Lifepegs societies within some of the universities.

Lifepegs activities are geared towards providing young adults with unique opportunities for healthy relationships, essential lifeskills education, and new and exciting forms of recreation. Its tagline is “Adventures You Can Hang Your Life On”. Through the club’s various activities, Lifepegs members learn about other cultures, about networking, about management, and about leadership.

Goducate hopes that the lifeskills learnt through Lifepegs will produce people who can contribute to globalization and to helping other needy communities.