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 were just 2 centers with about 400 students. This time the team will visit all 5 centers with about 1000 students. These students are unable to attend normal schools because they are “undocumented aliens” who have fled from the poverty of war-torn southern Philippines to the peaceful shores of Sabah.
It will be a lightning trip over a weekend because most of the Goducate volunteers have to return to work on Monday.
We will arrive on Friday evening, in time to enjoy a lovely seafood dinner in a restaurant built over the sea. On Saturday, we will start off early to visit the centers. Two of the centers are short distances from the road, one requires a 30 minute walk up a jungle path, another requires a 20 min walk over a soggy swampy ground, and another is a balancing act on a narrow plank walkway over a swamp.
On Sunday morning the team will return home – hopefully able to share what they saw and experienced with other Singaporeans and convert them into becoming supporters of these poor children because Goducate believes that every child deserves a decent education.
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Training session
Some 30 people, mostly mothers, attended… Continue reading
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