Goducate’s country leaders and project leaders from the different countries that we serve in stayed on after the official opening of the Goducate Training Center on Feb 11 for a three-day Goducate “summit”, to tell each other about their work and to plan together for the future. The leaders came from China, Cambodia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, and The Philippines. It was Goducate’s second international meeting, the first having been held in Singapore three years ago.
For most of the participants, it was the first time for them to meet each other face to face. Previously, they had only read about each other’s work—mostly through this website.
On the first day the project leaders told about their projects. On the second day, we hosted 200 guests who are involved in helping communities, to tell them more about our work and about how Goducate Training Center could help train creative community development workers. On the last day, the project leaders shared their “dreams” for 2012.
A project leader shares about his work
Potential co-workers hearing about Goducate
Some new potential additions to the team also attended the meeting. These are extremely talented men who are keen to start new projects for Goducate.
Our outcome-expectations for this Summit were: bonding of the Goducate team, sharing of experiences, and aligning of our plans for 2012. I believe that we met these expectations.
I believe 2012 will be a breakthrough year for Goducate because many of our projects are now tried and tested and ready for “scaling up”.
We hope to see Goducate helping many more Asians help themselves this year.
Goducate, with its mission of helping young adults in China to help themselves, has opened a second Lifepegs student activity center in southern China. The new center is located in one of the city’s major campus districts with a student population of 60,000 to 70,000 from 8 universities.
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Five of the first batch of trainees who completed the Goducate training program for basketball officials did not have to wait long to get their first jobs. And the jobs were not for matches at village level (where they had done their training), but at inter-university level. This job opportunity for out-of-school youth arose with the 10-day visit of the Indonesian Youth Team from West Java to play against eight… Continue reading
Goducate believes in encouraging the students at the literacy centers to read. However, it has not been easy to set up a library, or somewhere to store books securely. For one thing the centers are scattered over a wide area. For another, many centers are the living rooms of the locals into which the students squeeze for their lessons, while others are very basic structures consisting just of a roof… Continue reading
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