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Camp Goducate Iloilo offers new fun facilities

If a playground is every child’s dream, the Family Fun Park at Camp Goducate in Iloilo is what every family would dream of. It has been specially built for parents and children to have fun together. What is unique about this park is that is it made out of recycled tires.

The Goducate Family Fun Park is located on the grassy field near the bicycle booth. Recycled tires have been artistically designed and painted and turned into swings and climbing structures. Children and youth aged 3-15 can enjoy all of these, and parents can play with their kids on swings built for two. Although some play structures are already available for use by visitors, the park is still under construction, but it is expected to be completed soon.

Other facilities at the Camp Goducate Iloilo that families can enjoy include the hiking trail and the viewing deck.

The Goducate Hiking Trail will appeal to nature lovers. They will enjoy the lush green trees and grasses, the fresh air, and the chirping of birds along the route.

A few meters before the start of the hiking trail is a viewing deck that is being constructed and will be available for the public soon.  The deck offers an awesome view of nature that would calm tired minds and bodies.

All the facilities offer good opportunities for group photographs that will provide lasting memories of enjoyable times at these places.

Painted tires assembled for children to have fun with
Swings for parent-and-child use still under construction 
*Our guest writer is Rebecca Depalubos.
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Progress of Goducate Housing Project

The Goducate Housing Project to re-house last November’s victims of Typhoon Ulysses is progressing well. The project is to re-house ten families (see blog March 12).

Three volunteers from Goducate Laguna, and 15 from the Technical Support Company and 403rd Alpha Maneuver Company of Regional Mobile Force Battalion (RMFB)-4A have been helping to build these houses.

As of April 6, 2021, work was going on with seven out of the ten houses, and three of these are nearly ready to be occupied. The plan is to finish all ten houses by the end of April.

 Posts installed
House awaiting installation of walls and door
Semi-detached houses almost completed
*Our guest writer is Donnalyn Pereira.

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Goducate sports programs progress online

When the Philippines government closed sports facilities as part of its effort to control the Covid-19 pandemic, Goducate’s basketball program adapted to the situation by offering training online to basketball coaches, referees, and leaders (see blog of June 12, 2020, on GoBasket webinars). After these virtual training sessions had been conducted for trainees from all over the Philippines and even for some from Malaysia, we introduced backyard coaching.

In backyard coaching, those who had been trained as coaches online would gather players in their own villages for virtual training.

The idea of online training has since been extended to other sports in a nationwide program called Go Asia Sports. The other sports covered in this Camp Goducate program include volleyball, football, taekwondo, fitness training. Coaches have been sending in their videos on training, which include moral values. The online training is conducted on Facebook.

On March 1, a virtual backyard Basketball Forum was conducted mainly for Western Visayas. The participants (30 from Western Visayas, 4 from Laguna, and 10 from Mindanao) shared ideas on backyard training and how to do so in accordance with government guidelines on control of Covid-19.

Poster about GoBasket’s training sessions 
*Our guest writer is Andrian F. Pagsuiguiron, National Coordinator for GoBasket Philippines.