Goducate started working with Tranca Elementary School in Tranca, Laguna, in the first quarter of 2012, with a feeding program that, after 6 months, resulted in 95% of the students attaining their appropriate weight. The success of this program led the school to invite Goducate to join them in other programs.
In the school’s farming program, Goducate taught the students and teacher hydroponic and aquaponic gardening, and the school’s principal and teacher in charge of farming visited the Goducate Model Farm to learn more about growing vegetables. The school won first place for the Most Clean and Green Program and the Gulayan sa Paaralan Competition, which Mrs Cora Ortiz, the school’s principal acknowledged was in part due to the partnership with Goducate.
Goducate has also helped the school in its Moral Recovery program. When camps or seminars are held as part of this program, Goducate has been invited to participate.
Recently when the Multiple Intelligence International School from Metro Manila visited Tranca Elementary School to do some tree planting, Goducate was invited along for the event as well as to give a lecture on hydroponics.
The Department of Education’s District Supervisor has acknowledged Goducate’s contribution to the work at Tranca Elementary School by giving us a Certificate of Recognition as a partner in education. In addition it has taken on one of our literacy teachers onto their kindergarten staff.
More recently, Tranca Elementary School offered Goducate the use of their old administrative building for a Goducate Literacy Center, which now caters for 14 students. In appreciation of this favor, Goducate gave a school a computer.
The newest development in the partnership is the Voice lessons that Goducate is starting for the students of Tranca Elementary, who are learning forward to learning how to sing better.
