Yesterday, Ibu Roska, our co-worker in Indonesia came to the Goducate office to share with us her need of English teachers and computer teachers for Indonesia. Ibu Roska has been my long-time friend and co-worker in Indonesia. All our three centers in Batam, Indonesia, have been started with her help. Without her experience and expertise in starting projects in Indonesia, we would still be groping our way through the complex web of Indonesian immigration laws, corporate laws, educational laws, etc.
Ibu Roska has built about 20 schools in different parts of Indonesia – most of them in poorer communities. Besides these schools she has built so many other community projects that she is unable to remember them all! When I say “built,” I mean that she has been the one who was instrumental in planning, raising the funds to build it, recruiting the faculty and staff, raising the funds to pay for the running of the school until such time that it could be self-financing, etc. This is certainly no mean feat for a lady who has no funds of her own, who is not part of a large organization and who has three teenage children studying in Singapore to look after. As far as I can see, what drives this dear lady is her strong desire to help Indonesians help themselves through education.
A Goducate center in Indonesia started witht the help of Ibu Roska
Yesterday she told me that each of the schools she has started is in need of English teachers and computer teachers. There is a dire shortage of competent English teachers in Indonesia, and a shortage of competent computer teachers and computers in the Indonesian school system. This fits in nicely with our Goducate strategy of helping poor Asians in these two important areas of education.
We ended our meeting with an agreement for Goducate to send English and computer teachers to two of her projects – a school in a remote place near Pekan Baru, Sumatra, and a new center that she has just built in Batam. (More information of the places and scope of work will be posted after we have worked out the details.)
We look forward to helping Ibu Roska help her people help themselves – through provision of Goducate English teachers and computer teachers and computer resources.
Will you volunteer to teach English or computer skills to Indonesians?
Will you give your computers to them?
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Training session
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Hi,
I am a teacher in Greatminds School at One Commonwealth. I saw the window panes of Goducate when I left last night. I have been teaching computer science for 10 years in both Singapore and Indonesia. I hope to contribute during the school holidays in Nov or June. I would like to find out more how Goducate operates and consider how can I or and staff contribute to your worthy cause.
Wai Keong.