Six weeks ago, I visited a swampy kampong in Sabah to discuss the possibility of starting a literacy center with the village “elders.” While I was talking to them, a teenage girl sat quietly in the corner of the little room. As I was about to leave the house, … … Read More
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“Help, please help! Your younger sister was cooking food by herself”, shouting by the uneasy neighbour who went inside the class to call up the eldest sister. The two sisters The eldest sister was 10 years old and attending class in one of our Goducate centers, learning … … Read More During our recent visit to Goducate’s Sabah Literacy Centers, we crossed little rivers, climbed little hills, hiked slippery muddy tracks and “crawled” under a fence to get to the different centers. However, the most memorable visit was to the literacy center that was built on a swamp. This community … … Read More On our recent trip to Sabah, the twelve members of our team carried a precious cargo of donated text books for our literacy centers. Each one was assigned to carry the maximum load allowed by the budget airline. These were no ordinary books for recreational reading but were brand … … Read More There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. Each time I visit our Sabah learning centers, I’m not only impressed with the transformation of the students but also with how entire communities are transformed. The most marked change is seen in the community where we started our first learning center (for reasons of security, I will just … … Read More Goducate believes in helping Asians to help themselves. Therefore, Goducate projects are usually community projects. Goducate does not believe in playing the role of a charitable Santa Claus bearing gifts because this type of help breeds laziness. Worse than laziness, it robs the recipients of their dignity as useful … … Read More Just 9 weeks ago, when I visited our Goducate Learning Centers in Sabah we had about 500 students enrolled (it’s impossible to give exact figures even though we register our students because parents sneak in additional kids all the time and most of our classrooms do not have walls … … Read More |
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