Our mission is to bring together people who want to give to a good cause but who have no means or time to source for one, and People At Risk / Disadvantaged People for whom such financial support will empower them with a second chance to progress in life.
We are aware that many people sincerely want to give to a good cause. The problem is that many of these people who have the financial means are oftentimes too busy to search out the charitable cases that give them personal satisfaction to support. Even if they have the time to do so, they often are at a loss to know where to start looking. Many people then take the easy way out.
They give to a charity whose cause they are not particularly passionate about. They have no contact with the charity or the ultimate recipients of their money for the rest of the year. But they console themselves that they have done their annual charitable act.
At Goducate, we focus on 2 groups of people in need of financial support, namely, People At Risk and Disadvantaged People. We define People At Risk as any person or persons who are at risk of leading a life of hopelessness, uselessness, crime, addictions, sexually transmitted diseases, etc., caused by a lack of education or vocational training for acquiring livelihood skills due to various circumstances like poverty, dysfunctional families, etc.
We define Disadvantaged People as those who are disadvantaged educationally, economically, socially and culturally through deficiencies in their personal upbringing and training causing them to lose their competitiveness in life. A third group of people is needed to make this a success. This group comprises teachers, trainers, instructors, mentors, etc., whose role is to teach, train, groom, refine the People At Risk and the Disadvantaged People.
Goducate is, in a sense, a clearing house where financial providers and financial seekers meet.
The thing that makes Goducate stand apart from others is that Goducate does not charge a fee for playing this role, or for subsequent administrative/supervisory work. When a match is found, every dollar given by the financial provider goes to the designated financial seeker.
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- 11 March 2010 : Soap-making in new Goducate Center in Philippines .. Leave a comment
Our new Goducate Learning Center in Mabakan, Laguna, Philippines, is now teaching soap-making as a means of livellihood. This part of Laguna is famous for its hot-spring resorts. Many people from Manila visit these resorts, especially on the weekends. One of the largest resorts has agreed to buy our hand-made soap for its guests. The [Read More...] - 10 March 2010 : Goducate offered camp-site in Batam! .. Leave a comment
Goducate has been offered the free use of a camp-site in a “prime” location near one of the busiest towns in Batam, Indonesia. This brand new facility is not the typical youth camp-site but is ideal for “urban” camping. It consists of 6 terrace-houses (connected houses), an internal covered courtyard and a community hall. The [Read More...] - 9 March 2010 : Sabah new literacy center opens – floor cracks under weight of 240 students!! .. Leave a comment
Last week Goducate opened another literacy center in a swamp in Sabah for poor kids who cannot go to school. Because of the dampness of the swampy soil, the school-house had to be built on stilits. Goducate provided 500 Malaysian Ringgit (about US$150) for some building material and the community chipped in to build their very [Read More...] - 6 March 2010 : Singapore health-care company sponsors vehicle to Goducate, Sabah .. Leave a comment
MHC Asia, Goducate's generous corporate sponsor has sponsored another vehicle to Goducate. MHC has already sponsored a van for Goducate's Batam work and two vans for Goducate's Cambodia Children's Home. MHC Asia has also sponsored funds to start a Goducate model livelihood farm in Laguna, Philippines. - 5 March 2010 : I’m afraid they won’t enrol me; I want to go to school .. Leave a comment
In the village there was a story of this young fellow. The trained parents and teachers were collecting a contribution for the school house to be built in that particular place. They went to the house of this 8 year old child and asked “where are your parents?” The kid told them [Read More...]
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