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The raining season in Cambodia is over, and construction on a few projects commenced at the Goducate Children’s Home in Prey Nob, Cambodia, in Dec 2010. One of the projects was to build a security fence around the farm area. Fruits and vegetables used to disappear, or else get … … Read More
The children from the Goducate children’s home in Prey Nob, near Sihanoukville Cambodia, had a big treat early this month – they were invited by the United States Navy to tour one of the guided missile destroyers from the 7th Fleet – the USS Mustin!
The children, over … … Read More
Last week I visited some needy schools in Sumatra (Medan and Pekan Baru). This week I received an invitation to visit a very needy school in Nias Island (Pulau Nias) which is an island off the west coast of Sumatra.
For many of us, Sumatra is not on our … … Read More
You could say that it started with a sigh of restlessness that resonated amongst my peers. There was a certain fatigue from the mundane living of daily routine coupled with an inner desire to do something meaningful, something larger than ourselves.
It was with this seedling of aspiration that … … Read More
Last week, fifty teachers from the seven Goducate Literacy Centers in Sabah gathered for a teachers’ meeting.
The meeting was held on the 2nd floor of a fast-food restaurant. For most of them, it was either the first or second time that they had entered a … … Read More
The 15 visitors from the blogging communities of ieatishootipost and Nuffnang were given a first-hand view of the progress of Goducate’s 2 year old literacy program in Sabah, Malaysia.
When they visited Goducate’s newest literacy center (barely 2 months old) they saw only 40 students learning their ABC’s in … … Read More
Last week, Dr Leslie Tay, the well-known Singapore food-blogger who started the ieatishootipost.sg food-blog led a team of 11 from his blogging community to visit the literacy centers set up by Goducate for poor children in Sabah. They were accompanied by 4 friends from Nuffnang, Asia-Pacific’s first blog advertising … … Read More
“Teacher your house is not just a school center, it’s our new health center too” said a happy mother to Teacher M. Teacher M is a cheerful mother who volunteered to teach the children in her small community. She holds classes for over 40 children in her small canteen. … … Read More
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