Goducate Training Center is situated among poor rural communities in the municipality of San Miguel, Iloilo.
When we first started construction of the Goducate Training center two years ago, the area had been hit by a long drought and most of the farm land surrounding the center was barren and uncultivated. As we developed the 11 hectares of land, we discovered that there were 5 springs in our land. So one of the first structures that we constructed on the land was an impounding pond to provide water for our crops and for our neighbors’ fields.
Since the construction of the impounding lake, we have been providing water for all our own rice-fields and vegetable gardens, and supplying water to our neighbors’ rice-fields. The land in and around Goducate Training Center is now a beautiful green “oasis” even in the dry season.
Goducate Training Center also provides employment for the communities around us. Most of our construction workers and support staff are from the neighboring communities. More important than the employment opportunities provided, is the training that is provided as they work at the center. Promising workers are identified for further training and employment in Goducate Training Center.
Goducate Training Center trainees also spend about half of their training to be community development workers in practical work, most of which is done in the neighboring communities. Daily our trainees go out to these communities to teach literacy, lifeskills, public health, agriculture, etc.
Before our community development workers graduate in December and are sent away to other poor communities, they must first help our neighbors to help themselves.
For booking inquiries please contact our booking officerat 09225506199