So a couple of us got together this weekend to rig up the Goducate office on a shoe string budget. Key features include a photo exhibition gallery and a magnetic chalkboard wall. Had an excellent team of elves execute this DIY project with me on short notice and these photos capture snippets of the process. To these who so willingly and joyfully gave of their time, strength, talents, gifts and resources towards this cause, thank you for each of you and hope you will fondly remember Operation Goducate. =)
– Alina
Renovating Goducate's Singapore Coordinating Office
60 Photos
This is a story of a boy in Laguna which will probably remain untold had the Goducate team not visited him at his home. One would have thought that Ian Mendoza is 12 years old simply because of his child-like appearance. But he is actually 18 years old. Ian suffers from meningioma – a non-aggressive cancer of the central nervous system. A slow-growing brain tumor – probably the size of… Continue reading
For urbanites in First World countries, it is perhaps correct to say that most will find it difficult to empathize with those who experience real poverty. Not that I can empathize any better or had become wiser after my short visit to a rural community in Laguna, Philippines, I think poverty is not just simply earning less than US$ 1 a day, or not having enough to eat as conventional… Continue reading
The team behind Goducate Training Centre
Goducate is undertaking to build a Training Centre in Iloilo… the 5th largest city in Philippines. The choice of the location, a city I have not heard of until recently, is well-thought out – the availability of good human resources, experts in various fields. No wonder, after Manila, Iloilo has the most number of Universities in the Philippines.
Much have been written… Continue reading
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