Category: Children’s Home

The Goducate Children’s Home in Prey Nob, Cambodia, near the seaport of Sihanoukville, currently houses 33 children. Several others have already turned 18 and have left the Home to work. Two older boys, Samuel and Joshua, are completing their studies in Cebu City, Philippines.

The Home provides a safe,  loving environment for Cambodian children who had lost one or both parents, or who simply became unwanted by their families when their parents split up and remarried. Each child has a sponsor to meet their physical needs i.e the cost of their education, food and medical care.

Recently, one of the teenage boys, on an adventurous exploration of the far corners of the Home, suddenly decided to catch a squirrel he had spotted on a big tree. 14-year-old Andrew, despite the admonishments of his friends, shined up the tree. Unfortunately, his climbing skills was unable to match the squirrel’s, and he took a tumble and broke several bones. Recovery was quick, and the Home was thankful to his sponsor for graciously bearing the cost of hospitalisation.

 

 

 

 

 

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.

Agriculture is part of the livelihood training given to the children at the Goducate Children’s Home in Cambodia. A few years ago the Home started raising livestock, and last year it started the vermicast project that gets compost from earthworms. In February this year, the Home started to raise ducks.

We started with 50 ducklings, and some of the older boys in the Home were trained and assigned to feed the ducks and harvest the eggs.

Initially the ducks were fed on rice husks only. They started producing eggs in the second month but the harvest was only 3-5 eggs a day. So in April we began to give them commercial feeds. Since June we have been more than 500 eggs a month, enough to meet the needs of the home.