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Progress of Goducate Housing Project

The Goducate Housing Project to re-house last November’s victims of Typhoon Ulysses is progressing well. The project is to re-house ten families (see blog March 12).

Three volunteers from Goducate Laguna, and 15 from the Technical Support Company and 403rd Alpha Maneuver Company of Regional Mobile Force Battalion (RMFB)-4A have been helping to build these houses.

As of April 6, 2021, work was going on with seven out of the ten houses, and three of these are nearly ready to be occupied. The plan is to finish all ten houses by the end of April.

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House awaiting installation of walls and door
Semi-detached houses almost completed
*Our guest writer is Donnalyn Pereira.

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Goducate sports programs progress online

When the Philippines government closed sports facilities as part of its effort to control the Covid-19 pandemic, Goducate’s basketball program adapted to the situation by offering training online to basketball coaches, referees, and leaders (see blog of June 12, 2020, on GoBasket webinars). After these virtual training sessions had been conducted for trainees from all over the Philippines and even for some from Malaysia, we introduced backyard coaching.

In backyard coaching, those who had been trained as coaches online would gather players in their own villages for virtual training.

The idea of online training has since been extended to other sports in a nationwide program called Go Asia Sports. The other sports covered in this Camp Goducate program include volleyball, football, taekwondo, fitness training. Coaches have been sending in their videos on training, which include moral values. The online training is conducted on Facebook.

On March 1, a virtual backyard Basketball Forum was conducted mainly for Western Visayas. The participants (30 from Western Visayas, 4 from Laguna, and 10 from Mindanao) shared ideas on backyard training and how to do so in accordance with government guidelines on control of Covid-19.

Poster about GoBasket’s training sessions 
*Our guest writer is Andrian F. Pagsuiguiron, National Coordinator for GoBasket Philippines.

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Goducate to provide new homes and potable water in Bay, Laguna

A groundbreaking ceremony was held at Goducate Meek and Lowly Sanctuary, Barangay Tagumpay, Bay, Laguna on March 9, 2021, to mark the beginning of two projects.

One project is the installation of potable-water systems for the community. The people in this barangay (village) have been using a hand pump to get their water from a deep well.

The other project is to construct new houses for families whose homes were badly damaged during typhoon Ulysses in November 2020 and who do not have the finances for reconstructing their homes.  Some of the families have continued to live in their damaged homes, whereas others moved into evacuation centers. The new homes are also designed to be elevated so that occupants need not have to evacuate when the village is flooded. Also each of the new homes will include a toilet. Some of houses in the villages do not have their own toilets, and some do but in a low-lying area that can get flooded.

Ten households have been chosen to be the beneficiaries of the housing project.

This Goducate project is being led by Mr. Leo Decinal in partnership with the Municipal Mayor of Bay, Laguna, the Hon. Jose Padrid, the Barangay Captain of Tagumpay, Bay, Laguna, Hon. Florencio Dungo, and Water Mission.

Other partners helping with the projects are the Regional Mobile Force Battalion in the leadership of PLTCOL Ledon Monte, and Municipal Link, Department of Social Welfare and Development under the charge of Mr. Maynard Marasigan.

*Our guest writer is Donnalyn Pereira, a staff member at Goducate Laguna.