Author: Grace

The Goducate Children’s Home in Cambodia is fortunate to have large grounds that allow space for sports as well as for various livelihood projects. Under the leadership of the teacher who teaches Khmer language, the Home has started a football league. It is a good way of allowing the children from the Home and those from the neighboring communities get to know and have fun with each other, and for the latter to enjoy some of the facilities of the Home.

So far three teams have joined the league. 10 of the boys at the Home form one of the teams. The boys from the Home also take part in another league, that organized by Rawlings Institute.

In June last year a girl’s workshop was set up at the Goducate Children’s Home in Cambodia. Initially it was used to teach girls how to bake. Not only were they girls baking for the birthday parties at the Home, but they also later began to bake for the Rawlings Institute, a training center, thus earning some income for the Home.

More recently they have been learning to sew. After a spell of the learning the basics of sewing, they have embarked on a project to sew T-shirts. They plan to sew 100 T-shirts to be given to the needy in the neighboring communities. These are communities that the children and the staff from the Home visit regularly to teach English.

Two of the older boys in the Goducate Children’s Home in Cambodia are now continuing their education in the Philippines.

At the Home the two boys, like the other residents there, undergo a US-based home-schooling program. However, to ensure that they will be able to fit well into their community when they leave the Home, all the residents also learn the Khmer language.

Joshua is now enrolled in a college in the Philippines, while Samuel is continuing with his schooling. While at the Home, Samuel had shown considerable musical ability. There are no formal music lessons at the Home, only sporadic lessons from visiting musicians. Samuel learnt to play the violin, and also how to repair violins. He is thus now also enrolled at a music school in the Philippines.

So far the reports from their teachers indicate that they are coping well.