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Goducate Training Center prepares for 2013

men's dormitory

This year’s trainees at Goducate Training Center in Iloilo, Philippines, will be graduating in December. There are almost 50 of them who would have finished their 6-month training by Dec 14.

About 20 of them will be serving as community development workers in China, Indonesia, and Cambodia. Another 5 … … Read More

Leadership Training at Goducate Training Center

Participants at the Leadership Seminar

Last week Goducate Training Center (GTC) held its twice-yearly Leadership Training for young people interested in learning to serve their communities.

80 young people from the Visayas (the “central” part of the Philippine islands) attended the sessions on topics such as “The Leader and the World”, “The Mission of … … Read More

GTC students prepare well for literacy teaching

Practising using a game to teach shapes

Teaching literacy is likely to be one of the common tasks that Goducate’s community development workers will have to do when they finish their training and are sent to work among the needy. Even in places where the population is entitled to free state education, many children are unable … … Read More

Goducate Training Center staff undergo sports training

George Magsino lecturing on the theory of basketbal refereeing

A 3-day mini sports course was held at the Goducate Training Center (GTC) in Iloilo, The Philippines, for staff of the center during the break that the GTC trainees were having. Those GTC trainees who stayed on at the center during their break also took part in the course. … … Read More

Secret of “humongous” crops at Goducate Training Center is in vermitea

Eggplants with vermitea (upper row) and without vermitea (lower row)

Many people think that the humongous plant cultivars with upsized leaves, fruits, tubers, bulbs, heads, rhizomes, and grains that taste delicious grown at the Goducate Training Center are a result of application of commercial fertilizers, or maybe of abundant sunshine. Or maybe even of the use of synthetic hormones. … … Read More

Goducate trainees finish first module of their course

Trainees speaking in second language

On May 25 the Goducate Training Center celebrated the completion of the first training module taken by its first batch of full-time trainee community development worker (CDW).

These 33 trainees, from Philippines, Cambodia, Indonesia and China, had undergone a rigorous 2-month program in agriculture, teaching methods, literacy teaching, counseling, … … Read More

Helping others help themselves begins at Goducate Training Center

Children's water-park

Goducate aims to help Asians help themselves because Goducate believes that its projects must be sustainable ones.

To ensure that this philosophy is entrenched in our culture our main training center, the Goducate Training Center in Iloilo, Philippines (where almost all Goducate’s future workers are trained) is designed to … … Read More

GTC trainees learn how to GO and EDUCATE

Harvesting moringa pods the Indonesian, Malaysian, and Filipino way

Two weeks into their six-month training and the new batch of international students at the Goducate Training Center are all primed up to becoming effective community development workers in Asia. The course contents are quite diverse but the main emphasis is on teaching them how to teach needy Asians … … Read More