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Mr T Sihombing will join Goducate to lead its Indonesia expansion. Goducate has always wanted to expand its work in Indonesia. Indonesia, an archipelago of 17,000 islands that stretches from the Indian Ocean on the west to the northern shores of Australia on its east, is the fourth most … … Read More 
For the past 3 months I’ve been in and out of Indonesia visiting educational institutions in different parts of Indonesia (Java, Sumatra ,and Batam). Indonesia is one of the emerging economies of the world and there is a new sense of excitement and hope among Indonesians across the different … … Read More 
Last week I visited a friend’s palm oil plantation 2 hours from the city of Pekanbaru, Sumatra, Indonesia. My friend is an Indonesian who has started about 10 schools in different parts of Indonesia. Each of the schools she has started is a proper school offering standard education to … … Read More 
Recently I was invited to speak to teachers in Medan. Medan is the largest town in Sumatra, an island in Indonesia. These teachers were from 3 private schools that cater to students with “special” needs. As these schools are private, non-profit schools, their teachers do not get the benefit … … Read More 
For the past 2 months, approximately 30-40 Indonesian teenagers gather each Saturday for a Goducate Teens’ training session. Goducate staff pick the teens at 230 pm and bring them to a local school with nice facilities for their training. A small team from Singapore leads the training program, assisted … … Read More 
Last month 3 Americans from an established youth camp in America came to Batam to teach us how to run youth camps. The 3 Americans were accompanied by 3 Filipinos from Goducate Training Center in Iloilo, who are also experienced in running Goducate youth camps in the Philippines. The … … Read More Recently, I was invited by a friend to visit some private schools in the city of Pekan Baru in Sumatra, Indonesia. He had heard from a fellow Indonesian about how Goducate was helping the private schools in Batam and wanted me to do a “survey” of the school situation … … Read More I gathered we are going to Batam for our staff retreat as well as to visit a learning centre there. The first thing that struck my mind then is the last time I did volunteering work was closed to 20 years back. I was still studying in NTU, and … … Read More |
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