Press Release – Goducate … Go And Educate!

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.

2019-12-102019-12-16

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.

2019-10-232019-10-23

Goducate musicians from Philippines and singers from Indonesia perform in Singapore

A team of Goducate musicians from the Philippines, and a team of children from Indonesia trained in Goducate’s Sing Your English (SYE) program were in Singapore to perform at MHC Asia Group Pte Ltd’s 25^th anniversary dinner on Oct 7.

The trip to Singapore was an opportunity that the children might otherwise never have to travel out of their country. Through the generosity of Dr Low Lee Yong, founder and CEO of MHC, the children also had a few days enjoying Singapore’s attractions.

The music program in Laguna, Philippines, began as a means of attracting out-of-school youth back into education by offering lessons on playing the recorder. It has grown into successful program, with children learning how to play a whole range of instruments. Not only has the team been invited to play at various events, but many individuals have obtained university scholarships based on their musical ability, and two are now university students majoring in music.

The SYE program is a popular program in Indonesia for giving children the confidence to speak English. Although students learn English in school, most do not use the language out of class, but learning the language through song somehow gets them singing English sentences wherever they happen to be.

For its 25^th anniversary, MHC also donated a total of Sing$1 million to several organizations. Goducate, which received Sing$300,000, was the largest recipient.