Preparations for the first Goducate Project Leaders’ Training are going well. A generous donation from a Goducate supporter this week provided us with the means to invite a few more of our project leaders to join us. For some it will be their first time leaving their home country!
A good program has been lined up for the 40 to 50 delegates that will be attending. Dr Low Lee Yong a Singaporean doctor whose health-care corporation is a Goducate corporate sponsor and who is an IT expert will be teaching us the importance of the internet, blogging and YouTubing. We want all our project leaders to be able to effectively share what they are doing with our other staff and with the world.
Dr Leslie Tay another Singaporean doctor who is also Singapore’s most well-known food blogger will be teaching us how to write interesting blogs and take interesting photos. Yet another Singaporean doctor, Dr Chan Tat Hon, who once was the number two person in the Singapore Tourist Promotion Board and who is now running a travel organization called Take-me-to-asia will teach us the importance of volun-tourism.
Other speakers who are more publicity-shy will teach us about the needy of Asia, creativity in non-profit work, cross-cultural communications, understanding and obeying foreign laws, etc. The first session begins on Monday night (Jan 18) and ends on Friday night (Jan 22) with a Goducate Night – where Goducate supporters get a chance to meet and mingle with our project leaders. From Tuesday on, training begins at 9am and lasts till 9pm (with the usual breaks for snacks and meals). Though the program is tailored for project leaders, all Goducate supporters are welcome to join the training sessions.
If you are interested to join the training, please email your interest to me.
As Goducate operates on a shoe-string budget our foreign delegates will be housed in homes of our friends and supporters. If you will like to help us house a delegate/delegates, please also email me. Your hospitality will be a great help to Goducate and a great encouragement to our field workers.