Recent Comments

Goducate Children’s Home sells the first batch of chickens

ScreenShot724

Not long ago we reported that the Goducate Children’s Home in Prey Nob, Cambodia has started their livelihood self-sustainability projects with tilapia farming and the rearing of goats and chickens.

The chicken hatchery was set up with the help of a generous sponsor, and the first 200 chicken reached … … Read More

Sabah Centers start livelihood projects

7-year-old Goducate student who sews her own clothes

There are now 17 Goducate Literacy Centers in Sabah, serving about 2000 poor children who do not have the opportunity to attend school.

Children at these centers learn phonics (literacy) and numeracy. The unique feature of Goducate’s centers is that most of the teachers are mothers from their own … … Read More

Goducate Children’s Home in Cambodia prepares to rear goats and chickens

ScreenShot315

Tilapia raising is not the only livelihood project that the Goducate Children’s Home is embarking upon. Goat raising is also a good livelihood project. Different species of goats have to be raised for different purposes. Although we would like to raise various species, we are at present focusing on … … Read More

Goducate Children’s Home in Cambodia starts self-sustainability projects with tilapia raising

ScreenShot312

The Goducate Children’s Home has long wanted to be self-sustainable. It has also wanted to teach the children at the home not only to stand on their own feet, but also to go and impart what they have learnt to the community. Over the years we have been gathering … … Read More

Women in Dayap learn to make soap

The first two candidates

It’s the dry season in the Philippines in April and May, so it has been hard to keep the vegetable plots watered. Therefore those who have been taking part in our veg@table programme in Dayap are instead learning how to make liquid dishwashing soap from our livelihood trainer Jonatan.

… … Read More

Goducate Training Center’s “soft launch”

Entrance to Multi-purpose Hall which has main hall, dining hall, offices and training rooms.

On April 9, 2011 we held a “soft launch” for Goducate Training Center in Iloilo, Philippines.

About 200 Goducate supporters and friends (including a dozen from Singapore and Australia) joined us for this occasion to celebrate the completion of Phase 1A of GTC’s development. We had had our ground-breaking … … Read More

Goducate Training Center’s fish pond

A visitor with his tilapia (this size of this fish is made much larger because it is held near the camera!)

On our recent trip to Goducate Training Center in Iloilo, Philippines we had the opportunity to catch the tilapia in our impounding lake.

The primary purpose of the impounding lake is to provide a source ofwater for our rice fields. Though there are 5 fresh-water springs on site, high-yielding … … Read More

Goducate Orchestra’s unforgettable experience at Manila Symphony Orchestra concert

With Ray Sison, flautist

When Channel News Asia brought music experts from Singapore to Laguna to help the Goducate Orchestra, they also brought along Ray Sison, principal flautist of the Manila Symphony Orchestra, to help select which of our members would go to Singapore for training. He kindly invited our orchestra to listen … … Read More