Goducate Sabah was invited to put up a photo exhibit in the Transforming Our City Together Exhibition 2011 in Penang, Malaysia. The conference was a gathering of organizations, businessmen, leaders, and volunteers who are calling for transformation in society.
One of the main speakers, Dr Kim Tan of Transformational Business Network spoke on corporate social responsibility and how good business practices positively affect transformation in the community. Goducate volunteers who attended the conference joined the workshop on education. The facilitator, educationist John Cruz, emphasized that transformation, be it in business, politics, culture, entertainment, etc, are all connected with education. When he visited the Goducate booth he expressed that this what was he was talking about and was quite impressed by how Goducate started learning centers that are run by mothers and by former students turned volunteer teachers.
Of the 40 exhibitors, Goducate Sabah, another learning center run by John Cruz, and a soon-to-be-started center by another group were the only three that are into literacy work. The exhibition was open to the public, and what Goducate is doing to help transform poor communities of women and children into productive learners and responsible members of their communities attracted much interest and appreciation.
