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In mid- November, Vic and Ric, the Goducate agricultural consultants from Iloilo visited the newly extended model farm to give our workers a short training session. Workers and volunteers soon got to work preparing plots and raised beds and planting a wide range of vegetables, including sweet corn, bell … … Read More 
Goducate’s mission is to help the needy help themselves. But we would also like them to give to other needy people what they themselves have received in the way of teaching, training, and mentoring. In this way a movement is created, so that each group of beneficiaries can become … … Read More 
Despite the rain and the threat of a typhoon (Typhoon Washi, known locally as Typhoon Send, which later claimed more than 500 lives in southern Philippines), over 200 people attended Goducate Orchestra’s “Concert for a Cause”, which was held in a public park in front of the municipal hall … … Read More 
About a year ago Channel News Asia featured Goducate’s music students for the program Once Upon a Village, which was aired earlier this year. For that program, Channel News Asia brought along Singaporean violinist Min Lee and director of the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music orchestra Wang Ya … … Read More 
The livelihood program (SELP, Self Empowerment and Leadership Program) in Laguna recently held a session to upgrade soap-making skills, to teach perfume-making, and to motivate the members. It was attended by around 30 people, consisting of 9 leaders, 8 members, and the rest who were newcomers. SELP covers 6 … … Read More 
In early October, Ric Patricio and Vic de Paz, agricultural consultants at the Goducate Training Centre in Iloilo visited the Goducate Model Farm in Laguna to assess conditions there. About a week later they were back at the model farm to conduct a 3-day training session. The first day … … Read More 
Goducate Training Center (GTC) in Iloilio, Philippines, is Goducate’s “university” for training its future leaders. Recently I was there to participate in one of its “leadership camps”. There were 240 trainees who attended the 3-day session on leadership, the vast majority being university students or recent graduates. I hope … … Read More 
For the Goducate violinists from Laguna, The Philippines, who were in Singapore for a short spell of intensive training in the violin at Wolfgang Music Studio, the trip was such an eye opener. They saw for themselves and experienced the pace of a modern, fast-growing city, life in a … … Read More |
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