Cambodia – Page 27 – Goducate … Go And Educate!

2010-08-062010-08-04

New teachers at the Goducate Children’s Home Cambodia

The Goducate Children’s Home in Prey Nob, Cambodia admitted 14 new children a few months ago, and immediately started them on the Learning To Read ABCs program. For many of these kids, it was the first time they had a chance to learn to read and write, and within a few months, many of these little ones graduated from this program with flying colors.

The new school semester will begin in September, and a week ago, the Children’s Home welcomed a new full-time teacher, Evangeline, into their midst. In three weeks time, a Filipino couple trained in education will visit and survey the Home with the aim of committing to a long term stay when the semester starts.

These new teachers together with volunteer and short-term teachers will be a great asset to the Goducate Children’s Home. They will not only care for the children’s academic needs, but will also take on the responsibilities of house-parents, becoming “mother” and “father” figures to these children.

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Helping poor children help themselves at Goducate Children’s Home

It was so heartwarming to see the children, performing, singing enthusiastically, at the end-of-semester Closing Program two weeks ago in Cambodia! Over 30 children were presented with medals after successfully completing another grade at the end of an eventful school year at the Goducate Children’s Home in Prey Nob, Cambodia.

Many of these children came from impoverished backgrounds – their parents too poor to provide even a meal a day for them. They had worked long, hard hours as soon as they could walk – collecting used aluminium cans and plastic bottles from the garbage to recycle, hauling cement and bricks at construction sites, selling home-cooked food from door to door – such were their sad lives before they were admitted to the Children’s Home. Here, they had a chance at education, and within months, they flourished and blossomed into happy, confident kids.

Goducate sponsors have adopted individual kids, providing funds monthly for their welfare and education – so that these poor children will have a future, and contribute to the society they live in.

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Street lights and biogas for the Children’s Home

The Goducate team visited the Children’s Home in Prey Nob, Cambodia two weeks ago to inspect the latest additions installed on the premises. For the first time, street lights have been installed and are operated by remote control. The lights at night made it safer for the residents at the Home – over forty children and staff.

The Children’s Home has also decided to go ‘green’, by installing a biogas system. This makes use of waste (dung from pigs and chickens) to produce methane gas to cover part of their energy needs. Biogas can provide a clean, easily controlled source of renewable energy from organic waste materials.