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!
A nursing school that came to know about Goducate’s community work has chosen the Goducate Learning Center in Mabakan, Calaun, to be a center for practical training for their students. Hence 10 nursing students spent January training the locals in basic health awareness and doing health screenings.
Training session
Some 30 people, mostly mothers, attended… Continue reading
A fortnight ago parents of the children attending the Goducate Learning Center in Lalao, Laguna, were brought together to attend a session with their children. The session, called Mama and Me, was intended to emphasize to the parents the importance of good communication with their children and of teaching their children and supervising them while they do their homework and assignments. For the children, the intention was to impress on… Continue reading
Several of our Lifepegs volunteers have been spending part of their winter break in Singapore. Most of them are teachers of English at universities in northeast China. One of their evenings here was spent at the Goducate office. It was a time for them and the Goducate headquarters team to get to know each other, for them to tell us about their experiences in China, and for them to learn… Continue reading
Wonderful development. Potentially 30k kids for English???!!
Mind-baffling numbers! Wow!