Goducate moves into India
Last Saturday night, Goducate launched its plans for India. Jacob, an Indian IT specialist who is now a Singapore citizen, spearheaded this launch. He has recently made several trips back to India to survey the potential for Goducate’s work there.
About 60 other Indians, most of who are working in Singapore, attended the launch. Goducate’s founder, Paul Choo, shared the Goducate vision with them. Stephen Paul, an Indian who is presently studying in Singapore, presented the plans for Goducate India. Stephen was instrumental in registering Goducate in India last month.
This was followed by a very enthusiastic Q and A session – until it was time for a good home-cooked Indian dinner!
The Goducate India team has already raised Singapore $30,000 to buy a property in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. They hope to raise another $30,000 for this project in the near future.
India is on the move! We hope to be a part of India’s progress by helping poor Indians to help themselves!
Goducate Training Center development continues at frantic pace
The rainy season is fast approaching in the Philippines. Thankfully, most of the rain has fallen in other parts of the Philippines and has been rather light on our camp-site in Iloilo, Philippines.
As the roads leading to the camp-site will be muddy, work requiring heavy equipment must be done before the heavy rains come. Also, heavier building materials (eg. steel beams, concrete posts) must be brought on site before the roads become unpassable to heavy trucks.
We are doing our best not to damage the roads leading to the campsite as this will affect our neighbours, who are mostly poor rice farmers. If we want to help poor Asians help themselves, these are the first group of people that we should do our best to help.
We are planning a seminar for them to teach them how to increase their yields by growing hybrid rice. Learning to work with them will help our trainees to work with other poor farming communities in Asia.
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