The children at the Goducate Children’s Home learn much more than the usual school academic subjects. All help out with looking after the plants (fruit, vegetable and flowering) and animals (chickens, pigs, fish) at the Home, while the boys learn livelihood skills such as carpentry, motor-vehicle repairs and welding, and the girls have lessons in baking and sewing. For some skills, such as playing the violin, the children get lessons from visitors.
There is no art teacher at the Home, but the children were fortunate to have had a few art lessons recently from a visitor. Josephine Mendez spent a couple of days holding art classes at the Home teaching them some basics on shading and color coordination. The children each produced two drawings, one in pencil and one in color, which were judged by a panel consisting of an architect and a graphic designer. The best in each category are now on display in the Home’s learning center.
