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In our Literacy Centers in Sabah for “undocumented alien” children we teach literacy and numeracy. These are basic skills that provide the foundation for other subjects that we will teach. However, we have also added an additional subject that we believe is important, namely, traditional dance. I realized that … … Read More “Help, please help! Your younger sister was cooking food by herself”, shouting by the uneasy neighbour who went inside the class to call up the eldest sister. The two sisters The eldest sister was 10 years old and attending class in one of our Goducate centers, learning … … Read More Each time I visit our Sabah learning centers, I’m not only impressed with the transformation of the students but also with how entire communities are transformed. The most marked change is seen in the community where we started our first learning center (for reasons of security, I will just … … Read More Just 9 weeks ago, when I visited our Goducate Learning Centers in Sabah we had about 500 students enrolled (it’s impossible to give exact figures even though we register our students because parents sneak in additional kids all the time and most of our classrooms do not have walls … … Read More This Friday about a dozen Goducate supporters from Singapore will fly to Sabah to visit our literacy centers. The team consists of about seven Goducate volunteer workers and 3 or 4 staff members from our corporate sponsors, MHC Asia. The last time we visited the centers in February, there … … Read More Many people have asked me “After your students graduate from your Goducate literacy program, where do they go?” This is a very needful question to ask, seeing that we presently have almost 1000 undocumented alien children (ie, illegal immigrants) in our Goducate literacy programs in East Malaysia. As almost … … Read More Tuesday afternoon dated March 9 this year, I was so tired because it was so hot and I really wanted to go and find a place to hide. I chose to join the class consisting 60 students with two teachers in one of the villages. The class started … … Read More In the village there was a story of this young fellow. The trained parents and teachers were collecting a contribution for the school house to be built in that particular place. They went to the house of this 8 year old child and asked “where are your parents?” The … … Read More |
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