In 2013 Goducate in Bay, Laguna Province, Philippines, had been helping 40 students through the Alternative Learning System (ALS). The ALS is a Philippines Department of Education non-formal education program for people who did not complete their schooling. Of the 40, 31 were mothers, and 4 were fathers. Goducate held twice-weekly classes for them.
On Nov 10, 13 of them conquered their fears and sat for the ALS secondary-level examination held at the San Pedro Memorial National High School.
Nationally, 6135 of 24,998 (24.5%) elementary-level candidates passed their examination, as did 72,076 of 221,598 ( 32.5%) secondary-level candidates. In our town of Bay, more than 1000 took the examinations, and only 3 of the elementary-level candidates and 19 of the secondary-level candidates passed. 4 of the 19 were Goducate students.
The 4 who passed will now be able to sign on for other short training courses or for vocational education. The other 9 Goducate candidate have the option of repeating the course with the 2014 students.
