Two months ago, Goducate sent a team of 11 English teachers from 5 countries to teach English at the Jogjakarta School of Environmental Engineering (called Sekolah Tinggi Teknik Lingkungan or STTL in Bahasa Indonesia).
Jogjakarta is the campus capital of Indonesia – with over 100 tertiary institutions of higher learning, attracting students from all over Indonesia.
Most of the students of STTL come from the poorer provinces of eastern Indonesia – and the objective of this school is that most of their graduates will return to their provinces to help improve the infrastructure of their home-places (particularly, to help electrify their home-places).
Heading the team at STTL is Prof. L E Redick, who is the Director of our English center, which is called the International Center of English Excellence (ICEE). The rest of team consists of our Head Teacher from India, 2 Filipinas, 2 Singaporeans, 3 Americans, 1 Malaysian and 1 Indonesian. Their task is to make STTL a center for English excellence.
The team has settled nicely into the comfortable on-campus accommodation provided by STTL. They are busy teaching both the faculty and students to upgrade their English and in the process have made many new Indonesian friends and built wonderful bridges into the lives of their students – many of whom will be the future leaders of Indonesia.
News of their good work is spreading and other universities in different parts of Indonesia have already approached us to start similar programs in their universities.
Indonesia is an emerging country with a great future.
Indonesia welcomes us to help them!