Goducate Training Center (GTC) which is located in the middle of 4 municipalities in Iloilo— namely, San Miguel, Oton, Alimodian, and Leon. A municipality is divided into barangays (the smallest administrative division), which contains territorial enclaves known as puroks (those in urban areas) and sitios (those in rural areas). In the 3 years of its existence, GTC has built strong relationships in 7 barangays (including 5 sitios withing these 7 barangays) through various projects such as the moringa project, vermicomposting, massage, sports, remedial classes, and hog-raising.
On June 14, GTC held its first Barangay Captains’ Lunch Gathering. Seven barangay captains and their officials attended this event. The purpose of this gathering was to update them on what is happening in their own barangay and to discuss with them how we can best help them attain their vision for their communities.
Goducate Philippines’ Over-all Coordinator spoke about how GTC hopes to provide sufficient community development workers who are creative, ready, able, and sacrificially willing to do their part to bring about life-transforming improvements to the communities and individuals they work with. GTC’s Over-all Coordinator added during his inspirational message that GTC’s asset is its community development workers, who visit and help their barangays every week. GTC desires that through the weekly visits of the community development workers, people in the community will be encouraged and mobilized to help others too through the different Goducate projects. Other speakers were members of the community sharing about how GTC had helped them and how they too had the opportunity to help others.
Our guest writer is Leigh, GTC’s Community Health Coordinator