Goducate Training Center in Iloilo, Philippines, is an 11-hectare site designed to train Goducate’s workers to help needy people to help themselves – especially in growing enough to feed themselves.
This month, Ric Patricio a well-known agriculturalist, has joined us as our full-time Agricultural Director. Ric, who received graduate training in the University of Minnesota, had a distinguished career teaching agriculture in the Central Philippine University and working in projects with the Asian Development Bank.
He has come on board to help us to improve our agricultural development in GTC and to improve the agricultural training of our trainees. His wife, Hope who is a soil expert, has been one of our agricultural lecturers.
Ric Patricio speaking at GTC
Giant delicious "sword bean" from GTC
Growing hot-peppers at GTC
Earlier this month, Goducate Children’s Home, Cambodia, welcomed 5 new children into the “family”. These children, Nat, Lynn, Kanya, Mon and Nia, come from Battambang, a 12-hour drive away from the Home. They come from very poor homes and have received little education. They came to the Home in hope of a better education and a better life in the future.
The new children were taken for medical check-ups… Continue reading
Since Goducate aims to help needy Asians help themselves, Bangladesh is a country that has attracted its attention.
Recently, Bangladesh was in the news because of a horrific factory collapse that killed over 1100 garment workers. I was in the country when that accident took place.
Bangladesh is the most densely populated large country. It has about 160 million people (half of US population) squeezed into a land… Continue reading
Goducate Training Center (GTC), in Iloilo, Philippines, held its first Recruitment Conference on May 6-8.
Invitations had been sent to new university graduates, to working people, and to those who had expressed interest in being trained as community development workers (CDWs). Over 300 people from all over the Philippines attended the conference.
The topics covered included the history of Goducate, its philosophies, its CDW training program, and the… Continue reading
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