Goducate Philippines headquarters staff

1. Oscar – is nurse by profession and he was previously working in the Middle East as nurse. Presently, he is one in charge of mountain and depressed areas community centers in Dumangas, Lacturan, Lanit, Bitoon, Neuva Invecion & Layog Bato.

2. Mike Mendiola – was a Chemistry professor at the Central Philippines University before joining us as volunteer and now a camp director for Camp Goducate Program.

3. Jeru Samilo – is a Civil Engineer who helps us both in our training and camp building project.

4. Belen – trained as English Teacher but worked in a bank. At present, she still pursuing her Masters in English proficiency  and is in-charge of our English Enhancement program for teachers.

5. Selah – trained as a Medical Technologist but worked as office secretary and as a teacher in one of our literacy training centers.

6. Jasper Dex  – trained as a nurse but is presently the our assistant camp director.

7. Teofy – a nurse by profession and presently doing Goducate community work.

8. Rodel – previously in the Philippines military and now camp handyman and teacher of youth in a Goducate community center.

10. Jet – is passionate in helping wayward youth, esp. drug-dependent youth, because he came from that background.

11. Jesusa – a commerce graduate works with kids and is in charge of the kitchen..

11. Biboy – a hotel and restaurant graduate, presently a handyman at Goducate.

12. Ranie – Chemical Engineering by training who is National Coordinator and Corporate Secretary for Camp Goducate. She is also the one in care of Goducate literacy training centers in Panay.

Goducate Guava Soap helps poor kid

Khen is the 14th child out of 16 children. He had just graduated from our Goducate learning center (Day care).

After graduation he suffered fungal infection in his arm. His family wants him to see the doctor, yet did not have the resources for the financial needs,, they sought for alternative healing (herbal method- in different ways), until one of our Goducate teacher recommended the use of our Guava soap.

Water Boiled from Guava leaves are commonly used to treat – newly circumcise patient) commonly believe it heals the wounds faster..

Before Khen could use up his second soap bought by her mother Linda (who is one of Goducate’s ALS student), the infection had been dried slowly. No other medicine had been used.

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Impounding lake takes shape at Goducate Training Center

The impounding lake for irrigation of our rice-fields and vegetable farms at the Goducate Training Center in Iloilo has begun to take shape.

This is the first thing that needs to be done on the site so that we can start planting our rice and vegetables. We will need this to feed the first intake of trainees which we hope to have by the last quarter of this year.

It is a race against time because of the coming rainy season which is already due. It will be very difficult for the heavy equipment to enter the site and the fields after the rains come.

The photos show the construction of the impounding lake and the dumping of the excavated earth to the site of the Multi-Purpose Hall.

Loading excavated earth on dump truck
Loading excavated earth on dump truck
Back-hoe at work
Back-hoe at work
Excavated earth becomes base of Multi-purpose Hall
Excavated earth becomes base of Multi-purpose Hall
The beginning of the lake
The beginning of the lake

We are also racing to gravel the roads so that vehicles can come in even during the raining season to bring in the building materials. If sufficient funds are available we can start building the roof of the Multi-Purpose Hall to shelter the building materials from the rain. If the roof is up before the rains then building of the other parts of the MPHall can be done even during the rainy season. Otherwise, we will waste 6 months of time during the rainy season.

Another urgent work which needs to be done is the bringing in of electricity from the highway. Electricity is needed to run some construction equipment.

Also, the gate and fence needs to be installed to protect our crops and building materials.

The remaining parts of the camp can be done later as funds become available.