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Goducate Training Center in Iloilo is a regional winner in 2019 Search for Outstanding Volunteers

Camp Goducate Phils., Inc. (also known as Goducate Training Center Iloilo) has been named one of the regional winners in the 2019 Search for Outstanding Volunteers (SOV). The selection was made on Nov 22, 2019, during the 4th Quarter Meeting of the Regional Development Council (RDC), at The Venue, San Jose, Antique.

The Search for Outstanding Volunteers Regional Search Committee (SOV-RSC) is headed by the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) Region VI, together with the Philippine National Volunteer Service Coordination Agency (PNVSCA). The search is done every December by the PNVSCA, together with the National Volunteer Month Steering Committee and the SOV-RSCs, in line with the celebration of National Volunteer Month. It aims to promote volunteerism as a tool for development by virtue of Republic Act No. 9418 or the Volunteer Act of 2007.

Antique Governor and RDC-VI Chairperson Rhodora J. Cadiao, together with NEDA-VI Regional Director and RDC-VI Vice Chairperson, Ro-Ann A. Bacal, awarded plaques of recognition to Goducate, as well as to two other organizations and three individuals for their exemplary performance and achievements in empowering communities and promoting volunteerism as a way of life, thus contributing to nation-building.

Since 2012, Goducate Training Center Iloilo has trained and housed over 300 volunteers who now serve all over the Philippines and Asia. The proceeds of its 11.2 hectare resort located in Barangay Sto. Angel, San Miguel, Iloilo go to community-development projects in poor villages in the country. Thus, it has recently been dubbed “Resort with a Heart”.

True to its tagline “Go and Educate”, Goducate Training Center will continue its pursuit as a non-government organization in Iloilo that provides training and community-development programs and projects for the youth and various sectors to develop group after group of Asian leaders in the 21st century. In the coming years, it aims to help and empower people in all of the barangays (villages) of the Philippines.

Goducate representatives receiving the award
*Our guest writer is a community-development trainer.
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Goducate Indonesia holds Summit in Batam

On March 11-13, some 50 people, made up of the Goducate team in Indonesia, together with their working partners and members of the headquarters team in Singapore, gathered in Batam for a “summit”. With the theme of the summit being “United to Serve”, the community development workers were given reminders (a) of the purpose of their being in Indonesia, namely, to serve the Indonesians, (b) of how they had been trained at the Goducate Training Center in Iloilo to be servants, and (c) of how to remain united.

They were also reminded of Goducate’s “5 Ps”—-purpose, people, program, place, and provision. When Goducate starts on a project, it works through the 5 Ps in that order. It starts with an aim to be achieved, recruits the appropriate people for the project, plans the program, decides where best to start the project, and then seeks for resources. It does not accumulate resources first and then look around for ways of using those resources.

The Goducate workers in Indonesia are scattered in Indonesia—in Pekanbaru, Batam, Medan, and Bandung—mainly teaching English to adults and children or helping villagers in agricultural projects. The summit was a chance for the various teams to update each other on what they are doing, and for those working on specific projects to brainstorm on how they can take their projects further. For instance, the Sing Your English team discussed how videos can be used to facilitate teaching by this method. As a result a drama team was formed to take this idea further.

Listening attentively.
Listening attentively.
During informal session on taking SYE program further.
During informal session on taking SYE program further.
Letting their hair...........down?
Letting their hair………..down?
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Launch of Global Life Hub in Hyderabad India

To get on in India today, one has to be a global citizen. With some 65% of companies here being international, and with Indians having to travel abroad for work or business, understanding other cultures and being able to speak English are important requisites for getting and holding on to a good job. Many students in India come from backgrounds that do not offer them these “qualifications”. Hence Goducate has set up a centre called Global Life Hub in Hyderabad to help the less advantaged university students learn to be global citizens.

Listening to an introduction about the Global Life Hub
Participating in an icebreaker game
Relaxing in the lounge area

The center was launched on Aug 11. It will be a place where students can meet foreigners, learn about other cultures, and practise their English so that they can converse in this fluently, naturally, and confidently.

Also, about twice a month we will invite professionals from multinational corporations to come to talk to the students about life in the corporate world and about the challenges they face daily in their office. In doing so we hope to give the students an idea about what they will be facing in global India.