Goducate has been offered the free use of a camp-site in a “prime” location near one of the busiest towns in Batam, Indonesia. This brand new facility is not the typical youth camp-site but is ideal for “urban” camping. It consists of 6 terrace-houses (connected houses), an internal covered courtyard and a community hall. The whole complex was donated by generous Koreans as a community-center for this part of Indonesia.
Goducate will run the first Camping English International (CEI) for 60 Indonesian teenagers on April 2 to 4. Young adults and youth from Singapore and Philippines will organise the camp and the fun-activities. An experienced lady drama teacher from Singapore will run the drama workshops. All activities will be conducted in English to encourage (force!) the Indonesians to converse in English. The main objective of this camp is to help the campers to improve their spoken English. The other objectives of the camp are to give the Indonesian youth exposure to other cultures, build bonds between Indonesians, Singaporeans and Filipinos and for the youths from these countries to learn from one another.
If this first CEI camp is successful, Goducate hopes to run a monthly camp and to run regular daily weekday English and computer classes in that campsite. According to Goducate’s Batam Advisor, there is presently a ready pool of 30,000 teenagers who are keen to learn English in Batam through CEI!
Water World is a 5 months old goducate center Sabah. It was named waterworld because once it was high tide the water reaches until the floor of our elevated school house. High tide will never be a hindrance to the students to go to school as well as volunteered teachers. I’ll show you some several ways to go to school even though high tide.
The model farm in Laguna, Philippines was a month-old operation when I visited it with the directors of Goducate in August. Its purpose is to demonstrate to the poor to produce vegetables for their own consumption. The first thought that came to mind, as I listened to the Goducate farm worker who showed me around, was that this place is a living lab. I noticed that each vegetable plot and… Continue reading
This is a story of a boy in Laguna which will probably remain untold had the Goducate team not visited him at his home. One would have thought that Ian Mendoza is 12 years old simply because of his child-like appearance. But he is actually 18 years old. Ian suffers from meningioma – a non-aggressive cancer of the central nervous system. A slow-growing brain tumor – probably the size of… Continue reading
Wonderful development. Potentially 30k kids for English???!!
Mind-baffling numbers! Wow!