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2020-02-142020-03-06

Goducate Laguna thanks schoolchildren for help at its farm

On January 20, Goducate Laguna held an appreciation day for the 16 students of Masaya Integrated National High School who spent 2 weeks in November last year helping out at the Goducate Farm. They were at the farm as part of the Philippines’ new education program requiring all Grade 12 students to undergo on-the-job training or work immersion. During their time at our farm they helped with mushroom production, vermiculture, and other aspects of farming.

At the appreciation day, they were divided into small groups and encouraged to tell us about their experience at the farm. It was also an opportunity for us to get feedback from their adviser about the training the students received at the farm. He is hoping to send another batch of students in the next school year.

As part of our thanks to the students, we gave them mushroom chicharon (a crispy mushroom preparation), some simple awards, and a certificate of completion.

Games time during Appreciation Day, Jan 2020

*Our guest writer, Mae Diaz-Luceno, is a staff member at Goducate Training Center, Laguna.

2020-02-032020-02-03

GoTeens Bukidnon hits its 10,000 student-mark for Student Leadership Program

Ten thousand students have participated in the GoTeens platform in Malaybalay City in Bukidnon Province in Mindanao (the second largest island group in the Philippines), in the year since the Student Leadership Program was introduced in Malaybalay City in September, 2018. GoTeens is a Goducate Philippines platform targeting high-schools, to educate the teenagers on the effects of premarital sex and illegal drug abuse. The platform’s tagline is “building the next generation of leaders”. The idea is to get youth leaders to educate their peers about pressing issues of teenage pregnancy and illegal drug abuse.

The GoTeens Malaybalay City team is composed of volunteers from different sectors, headed by Mr Daniel Asuncion and his wife, Dr. Ruth Asuncion. The milestone reached in Malaybalay City has been one of the long-term goals of Goducate as a whole in its efforts to get the more than 42,000 communities in the Philippines to mobilize more volunteers for the youth movement. Some of the volunteers are housewives, company drivers, doctors, and church leaders who aim to reduce the rising number of teenage pregnancies and illegal drug abusers in the country.

Goducate’s aim is to create movements with its existing platforms among various communities in the different parts of the Philippines. Trainings are offered to partners interested to collaborate in reaching their own communities.

Student Leadership Program in Managok National High School

Student Leadership Program in Bangkud National High School

Student Leadership Program in Can Ayan Integrated School

*Our guest writer is Carmela Damaso, a staff member of Goducate Laguna.

2020-01-102020-02-03

GoBasket Philippines holds first coaching skills enhancement training in Bukidnon, Philippines

GoBasket is a Goducate Philippines program aimed at drawing young people away from illegal drug abuse and other vices. Basketball is the Philippines’ favorite sport, and GoBasket works by creating a movement of basketball leaders happy to organize basketball events. On Dec 3, 2019, Coach Andrian Pagsuguiron, the person in charge of GoBasket Philippines, and Coach Bethtobin Saraza, another GoBasket Philippines coach, went to Barangay Sumpong, Malaybalay City, Province of Bukidnon, to hold that area’s first coaching skills enhancement training. About 40 participants from different barangays (villages) attended the session, which was designed to be sufficient to impart basic basketball skills. The coaching skills enhancement training in December aimed to produce coaches who will conduct basketball clinics to the numerous barangays in Malaybalay City. The coaching skills taught included dribbling, footwork, passing, and shooting.

A basketball clinic followed on Dec 7. Participants were the residents of Barangay Sumpong, Malaybalay City, and the clinic was headed by some of the coaches who were trained in the coaching skills enhancement session.

GoBasket offers further coaching skills enhancement sessions. The next one is planned for Jan 31-Feb 1, and will be held at the Goducate Training Center in Iloilo and conducted by international coaches.

*Our guest writer is Carmela Damaso, a Goducate staff member in Iloilo.