In March this year, 7 out of 41 Goducate scholars in the 2014-15 batch graduated from various universities in the Philippines. This Goducate Scholarship Program in Laguna, sponsored by a Goducate supporter, pays for the tuition fees of students from very low income families who are in the Goducate music program. In return the scholar helps in the music program as well as in Goducate community programs.
One of these graduates was Kimberly Cabalfin, who was orphaned at age 10. She lives with her aunts and grandmother, and with their help she finished her high-school education but they could not support her through college. Kimberly plays the violin and qualified for a Goducate scholarship. As a Goducate scholar she helped children to play the recorder.
Kimberly graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Secondary Education, with a major in Technology and Livelihood Education (TLE), from Laguna State Polytechnic University in Los Banos. She was a Goducate scholar throughout her 4 years in college.
She is now a TLE teacher in Calamba, Laguna, teaching grade 8-10 students. With this job she is able to help her aunts and grandmother with household expenses and to give her grandmother a monthly allowance.
Kimberly also continues to help Goducate whenever we have a youth camp and whenever the music department has an event.
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