So a couple of us got together this weekend to rig up the Goducate office on a shoe string budget. Key features include a photo exhibition gallery and a magnetic chalkboard wall. Had an excellent team of elves execute this DIY project with me on short notice and these photos capture snippets of the process. To these who so willingly and joyfully gave of their time, strength, talents, gifts and resources towards this cause, thank you for each of you and hope you will fondly remember Operation Goducate. =)
– Alina
Renovating Goducate's Singapore Coordinating Office
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Our new Goducate Learning Center in Mabakan, Laguna, Philippines, is now teaching soap-making as a means of livellihood. This part of Laguna is famous for its hot-spring resorts. Many people from Manila visit these resorts, especially on the weekends. One of the largest resorts has agreed to buy our hand-made soap for its guests. The soap will also be sold in its gift-store.
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… Continue reading
Last week Goducate opened another literacy center in a swamp in Sabah for poor kids who cannot go to school. Because of the dampness of the swampy soil, the school-house had to be built on stilits.
Goducate provided 500 Malaysian Ringgit (about US$150) for some building material and the community chipped in to build their very own school-house.
The pride of the village
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