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Goducate Children’s Home in Cambodia welcomes new children

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 … … Read More

New roles for Tim and Nathan at Goducate Children’s Home in Cambodia

Last year Timothy and Nathan, two boys from the Goducate Children’s Home in Cambodia, spent 8 months at the Goducate Training Centre in Iloilo, Philippines, training to be community development workers. They returned at the end of the year, and are now helping as staff.

Among other things, they … … Read More

English classes for communities around Goducate Children’s Home are popular

Class held in the open

With the goal of helping needy Asians help themselves, the children and staff of the Goducate Children’s Home joined hands and minds in offering informal English language classes to three communities near the Home. This project was started 3-4 months ago, and the classes were to be held every … … Read More

Organic pig farming a success at Goducate Children’s Home Cambodia

The organic pigs

Part of the training we provide to the needy Cambodians at the Goducate Children’s Home include farming and agriculture. Four months ago, an experimental organic piggery was started with the purchase of 18 small piglets to be reared on organic feed. The piggery was a good success as the … … Read More

Children at Goducate Children’s Home in Cambodia learn proper way of brushing teeth

Plastic model of mouth and teeth

“1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8…” , the voices of the children rang through the air, counting to the rhythm of tooth brushing.

In Dec 2012, a team of us from Singapore conducted hygiene workshops for the children of Goducate Cambodia. Oral hygiene was one key segment. We know the kids have toothbrushes, but … … Read More

Goducate Children’s Home in Cambodia starts English language classes in neighboring areas

Teaching through action

The children at the Goducate Children’s Home in Cambodia are learning several livelihood skills that they can apply when they leave the Home and return to their communities. One advantage they have over other children in Cambodia is their education in English. To give them on-the-job training in perhaps … … Read More

Boys at Goducate Children’s Home in Cambodia learn baseball

Paul gets ready to hit the ball

Talk about baseball to the kids in the Goducate Children’s Home (and probably elsewhere) in Cambodia and they will simply be disinterested. But show them the gear, teach them the baseball rules, explain the mechanics, let them have their first taste of the game at the diamond field, and … … Read More

Livestock and farming at the Goducate Children’s Home

The two cows (a bull and a heifer) at the Home

Following the Goducate agriculture consultant’s visit to the Cambodia Goducate Children’s Home in August, the Home recently started livestock farming with a new piggery and the purchase of 18 piglets.

Will, a Filipino community development worker, started his tenure at the Home (together with the new teachers Gene and … … Read More