Goducate Training Center in Iloilo, Philippines has begun training its pilot batch of trainees. For the past 3 weeks, 24 full-time trainees have started learning the basics of agriculture from experienced agricultural experts and the basics of teaching from pedagogic lecturers. These skills will lay the foundation for them as they serve as community workers helping needy communities to feed themselves and educate themselves.
This pilot batch of trainees are all staff of Goducate. We felt that it is best for our own staff to undergo training first, so that they will understand the challenges and struggles that future batches of trainees will undergo. Furthermore, training “insiders” and getting feedback from them will also help us to fine-tune our training program for future batches.
The training is divided into morning classroom sessions, followed by afternoon practical sessions of agricultural work in the fields and weekend practical sessions of teaching youth from the neighboring communities. Since the trainees have to continue to perform their regular Goducate work, their schedules are very heavy. Furthermore, the unusually heavy rains have made field work even more arduous.
Hopefully, some of these trainees will be able to help in training the next batch of trainees, and the lessons learned from this initial training will help the faculty to make necessary adjustments to our future training programs.
Goducate Training Center hopes to train hundreds of workers annually
to help the billions of needy Asians to help themselves.
