Goducate works in a variety of communities, so its workers have to know how to get on with diverse groups. Goducate has thus worked with The Blue Ribbon Global, an organization that supports community building, to a large extent through its Peace Ambassadors’ Training and Peace Services.
In March this year, The Blue Ribbon Global conducted two Peace, Diversity and Inclusion workshops in the Philippines—one in Iloilo for Goducate workers, and one in Laguna for Goducate workers, young professionals, and the local police. It had previously conducted a workshop in July last year for Goducate workers in Iloilo. Some of those who had gone through the training last year underwent a further short training this year to be workshop facilitators.
In Iloilo, the topics covered during the 2-day fun and interactive workshops included acceptance, beauty of diversity, understanding conflict, and sustainable development.
As a part of the workshop in Iloilo, a Skype interview was conducted with Ahmad Shah Karimi, director of Afghan Youth Empowerment and Peace-Building Team. The conversation was to introduce our team to peace workers elsewhere.
The short workshop held in Goducate Laguna Center introduced the participants not only to the concepts of peace, diversity, and inclusion, but also to the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Goducate has been registered as a partner with the SDG since October 2018. The SDGs are a collection of 17 global goals set by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015 for the year 2030, and the workshops conducted by The Blue Ribbon Global for Goducate fall under the 4th goal—of quality education.
*Our guest writer is Carmela Damaso, a staff member at Goducate Training Center, Iloilo