Cambodia – Page 2 – Goducate … Go And Educate!

2018-10-262018-11-14

Children from Goducate Children’s Home in Cambodia do tertiary education

The first child to be taken into the Goducate Children’s Home in Cambodia was Samuel Chuck. He joined the Home in November 2005, several years before the Home became part of Goducate. Since August of 2016, he has been a student at the American University of Phnom Penh, where he is pursuing a 4-year course in Bachelor of Arts, with a major in Global Affairs and a minor in Law. His tuition fees are USD9000 per school year but he has been awarded a half scholarship, and he works in the university to earn the rest of his fees.

Two others who have also started their tertiary education in Cambodia are the twins John and Jacob Phin . They are in a government vocational school doing 3-year courses, John in management, and Jacob in refrigeration and air-conditioning.

Two others from the Home went abroad. Joshua Kong completed his studies in a bible school in the Philippines, and returned to Cambodia in April this year to help in the Home and at a local church.

Adam Noo also went to the Philippines. He attended the Goducate Training Center in Iloilo from July 1 of 2017 until March of 2018. After his training at GTC, he transferred to Iligan City, a town in southern Philippines, and was able to complete two courses run by the Philippine Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA). One was on masonry from April 16 to May 7, 2018, and the other was on electrical installation and maintenance from May 22 to June 25, 2018. He is still in Iligan, doing a six-month TESDA course on gas acetylene welding. Adam has been fortunate in getting a scholarship for this course, as well as for his two other completed courses.

2018-03-102018-04-25

Children at Goducate Children’s Home in Cambodia have artistic talent

This current lunar year is the year of the dog. When Goducate sponsor MHC Asia Group wanted to produce postcards as corporate gifts for its clients during the recent Chinese New Year, it asked the children at the Goducate Children’s Home in Cambodia to draw dogs.

MHC was spoilt for choice. They were offered 14 drawings by 11 artists. They chose 2.

Click to see the postcard

The artists range in age from 10 to 20. The school at the Home does not offer formal art training. However, a visitor to the Home had taught the children some basic principles of drawing — eg, how to gauge size and proportions. Amazing what the children have been able to produce with that little bit of training.

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Visit to Goducate Children’s Home Cambodia

I brought my 2 kids, Ming (18-yr) & Owen (8-yr) with me to meet and explore the life of the 3 boys whom we are sponsoring in the Goducate Children’s Home. We were first warmly welcomed by the well- mannered kids at the Home and then amazed by their agility and ability to handle the tasks that were given to them eg 4-year old Lily was also taught to wash her own clothes like rest of the older children. Each child had their housekeeping responsibilities than just being taken care of. Under the tutelage of the teachers and a good home school system, my kids were able to communicate and played together very well with them throughout the visit. They taught Owen how to find worms directly from the ground for fishing and shown how they take care of the chicken coop and pig sty. In return, Owen taught them how to operate his go pro camera that he had brought along.

I am so glad that I had the opportunity to bring my city-life kids to experience life in a forest, to be able to see how the kids live with simplicity and yet with so much contentment. We were also thrilled to see them so elated to participate and later see their own photo prints that we had prepared for them through the photo-booth session. They were so appreciative of what we did for them that they left us with their lovely hand-made thank you cards. It was such a privilege to be able to bring the joy of Christmas all the way from Singapore to Cambodia. All efforts of travel was worth it!

The experience has impacted my kids so much that Owen was talking about how he is willing to give up his next Japan trip to go back to Cambodia again. I am reminded that’s whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. Looking at how many lives has been transformed through this Goducate Home, I do hope we are able to return soon too!

The team arriving in Phnom Penh airport on Monday

Contributed by guest writer, Peng Lay