Goducate … Go And Educate! – Page 52 – Helping Asians Help Themselves

2015-09-252015-09-28

Goducate runs pupils’ leadership summit in Iloilo, Philippines

In helping others help themselves, Goducate trains families, and companies, schools, and other organizations in leadership and team-building within their own context. Some of the training is done at the Goducate Training Center, but Goducate also has a mobile team that goes out to do the training. Goducate is in its second year of helping Iloilo Private Schools Educators Association (IPSEA) to train their student leaders.

IPSEA is an association of 17 elementary private schools in the province of Iloilo, Philippines. On Sept 10-11 Goducate ran the 7th IPSEA Pupils Leadership Summit. The event was held in 2 private resorts in Iloilo. 460 students from different municipalities in Iloilo province took part.

The theme of the summit was Marks of the Pupil’s Leadership in Governance. Lectures were made fun and easy by incorporating actions to definitions of the key words related to the lesson, and pupils were given creative materials to work on as well as fun-filled activities that would keep them energetic and build their critical thinking ability.

The lecturers and facilitators were the Goducate Training Center (GTC) trainees. Pupils were divided into eight smaller groups for the leadership enhancement sessions.

For the “ultimate challenge” pupils had to apply the lessons on planning, organizing, and leading in various activities that tested their physical and mental abilities. These activities enabled them to earn “money” with which they could buy materials to build a tower. The team that built the highest tower was the winning team.

The summit ended with the pupils being challenged to be good leaders in their schools and communities.

Pupils participating in group planning and presentation

*Our guest writer this week is Joanna De Leon, a community development workerr

2015-09-182015-09-18

Goducate Scholar becomes secondary school teacher

In March this year, 7 out of 41 Goducate scholars in the 2014-15 batch graduated from various universities in the Philippines. This Goducate Scholarship Program in Laguna, sponsored by a Goducate supporter, pays for the tuition fees of students from very low income families who are in the Goducate music program. In return the scholar helps in the music program as well as in Goducate community programs.

One of these graduates was Kimberly Cabalfin, who was orphaned at age 10. She lives with her aunts and grandmother, and with their help she finished her high-school education but they could not support her through college. Kimberly plays the violin and qualified for a Goducate scholarship. As a Goducate scholar she helped children to play the recorder.

Kimberly graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Secondary Education, with a major in Technology and Livelihood Education (TLE), from Laguna State Polytechnic University in Los Banos. She was a Goducate scholar throughout her 4 years in college.

She is now a TLE teacher in Calamba, Laguna, teaching grade 8-10 students. With this job she is able to help her aunts and grandmother with household expenses and to give her grandmother a monthly allowance.

Kimberly also continues to help Goducate whenever we have a youth camp and whenever the music department has an event.

2015-09-112015-09-14

Boys in Goducate Children’s Home in Cambodia form bread-making team

There is a girls’ workshop at the Goducate Children’s Home where the girls are taught skills such as baking and sewing. However, it is one of the boys who first showed an interest in making bread. The girls find making dough by hand to be heavy going.

Lois has been encouraged to pursue his interest. He has been learning to make cinnamon rolls. He is also able to make pizza dough and banana muffins. His interest in baking has piqued that of another boy, Andrew. So Lois, with Andrew’s assistance, will be making cinnamon rolls for friends of the Home.

Lois’ interests are not confined to baking. He is preparing for the National Students Convention next year in the Sports category (100 m race) and the Music Category (playing the violin as part of the instrumental ensemble).