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Wall at Goducate Children’s Home in Cambodia is reinforced

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From the 11th to the 23rd of January, I ate, slept, worked, and chatted with the children at the Goducate Children’s Home in Preyop, Cambodia. A typical day for a child in the home would go along something like this—wake up at crack of dawn to do assigned tasks … … Read More

Goducate Children’s Home in Cambodia to get proper workshop for vocational training

Schoolroom, where cubicles were built mainly by some of the older children

The Goducate Children’s Home in Prey Nob, Cambodia, has been providing vocational training informally to the children there to enable them to acquire livelihood skills that they can use when they leave the Home eventually.

However, we are planning to make the training more systematic. Towards this end, a … … Read More

Goducate produces book of stories by children at Goducate Children’s Home

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Ever wondered what it is like to be an abandoned child, to see your family split up because a parent is always drunk, to have to pick garbage to help feed the rest of the family? And when “fortunes” change as a child is admitted to a children’s home, … … Read More

Fun Times At Goducate Children’s Home

Music and art leisure pursuits

Life at the Goducate Children’s Home is not all about schoolwork and duties around the home. In their spare time in the late afternoon the children can choose to play football, play basketball, fly kites, play their recorders, draw, paint, or do whatever else they like. Recently, they have … … Read More

Impressions left by visit to Goducate Children’s Home

Caleb (in red, with his brother Titus) with airplane he made out of discarded plastic bottle and tin cans

The Goducate Children’s Home in Prey Nob, Cambodia is home to more than 30 children. Most of them come from challenging family backgrounds—orphaned, unable to live at home with their parents, from single-parent homes or simply abandoned. They are looked after by a Filipino couple Noe and Grace, who, … … Read More

New schoolhouse at Goducate Children’s Home

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Thanks to the generosity of sponsors, the Goducate Children’s Home has a new schoolhouse, where the children have been having their lessons since the start of this school year a month ago. The one-room schoolhouse was built largely by the older children and the staff, with the help of … … Read More

Graduation Day for the children at the Home!

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What a joy it was to see the children acting and singing on probably the most important day of their school calendar: Graduation Day, also known as the Closing Program. These children from the Goducate Children’s Home Cambodia had practiced very hard, memorised many lines and many songs in … … Read More

Goducate Children’s Home sells the first batch of chickens

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Not long ago we reported that the Goducate Children’s Home in Prey Nob, Cambodia has started their livelihood self-sustainability projects with tilapia farming and the rearing of goats and chickens.

The chicken hatchery was set up with the help of a generous sponsor, and the first 200 chicken reached … … Read More