Children’s Home – Page 20 – Goducate … Go And Educate!

2011-12-232018-09-23

Goducate Children’s Home in Cambodia to get proper workshop for vocational training

The Goducate Children’s Home in Prey Nob, Cambodia, has been providing vocational training informally to the children there to enable them to acquire livelihood skills that they can use when they leave the Home eventually.

However, we are planning to make the training more systematic. Towards this end, a training workshop facility is planned for next year. This facility will provide vocational and technical training in areas such as welding, electrical work, motor-vehicle repair and servicing, and possibly carpentry.

The Goducate Children’s Home currently also provides training in other areas such as agriculture, aquaculture, poultry farming, etc. It is likely to expand into animal husbandry next year.

The children also pursue academic study in subjects such as English, mathematics, science, social studies, Khmer language, etc.

a. School (5) — Schoolroom, where cubicles were built mainly by some of the older children

2011-12-13

Goducate produces book of stories by children at Goducate Children’s Home

Ever wondered what it is like to be an abandoned child, to see your family split up because a parent is always drunk, to have to pick garbage to help feed the rest of the family? And when “fortunes” change as a child is admitted to a children’s home, what is it like to have to adjust to living with so many others, to keeping some kind of a routine, to having go to classes? What else bothers such a child? What touches him or her? These and many other insights can be gained from “In The Shoes of a Cambodian Child”, a book consisting of stories by the children at the Goducate Children’s Home in Cambodia.

The idea of this book is to increase awareness of what goes on in the minds of children from dysfunctional families. It is so easy to push thoughts about the poor and needy to the back of one’s mind. We hope that the stories in this book will enable readers to empathize with the children from dysfunctional families and think about helping this and many other disadvantaged groups.

2011-10-28

Fun Times At Goducate Children’s Home

Life at the Goducate Children’s Home is not all about schoolwork and duties around the home. In their spare time in the late afternoon the children can choose to play football, play basketball, fly kites, play their recorders, draw, paint, or do whatever else they like. Recently, they have been able to attend karate classes if they wish. Karate expert (Hanshi) Patrick Fallay and his wife Myrine have been volunteering their services two afternoons a week. Uptake has been good, with most of the children, even the youngest one (4 years old), opting for the classes. Needless to say, it’s drummed into the children’s head that karate is for self-defence, not assault. For now, it’s good fun, good exercise, and good discipline.

photo(54) — Music and art leisure pursuits

The children get occasional outings too. A couple of weeks ago, they spent a whole day on the white sandy beach and in the clear water at the Sokha Beach Resort in Sihanoukville, where the management kindly threw in free rides on the banana boat, which was towed out into the sea by a motorized boat.