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MHC Asia, a finalist at this year’s British Chamber of Commerce’s (Singapore) 12th Annual Business Awards in the Exceptional CSR Practice category, is one of Goducate’s loyal corporate sponsors. Not only does MHC Asia (www.mhcasia.com) contribute generously to Goducate, it loses no opportunity to create awareness of and to gather support from others for Goducate.

At the Open Day of the new premises of the MHC Medical Centre (Amara), guests were encouraged to contribute to Goducate rather than to send flowers. Another form of contribution was for postcards that carried pictures of children at the Goducate children’s home in Cambodia. Guests who contributed in this way were asked to write a message to the child or children whose picture was on the postcard they chose.

The MHC Medical Centre (Amara) is a centre for GP consultations as well as a one-stop health-screening centre for pre-employment checks and executive health screening.

Goducate is grateful to be the beneficiary of MHC Asia’s CSR (corporate social responsibility). Among other things, the company has sponsored office space for Goducate headquarters, several vans for various Goducate projects, the lease of a Goducate center in Batam, land for the Goducate model farm in Laguna, and literacy centres in Sabah.

Last Saturday saw another session of the ieatishootipost blogging community’s eating for a good cause—ie, for Goducate learning (literacy) centres in Sabah. The community has pledged to collect for 100 learning centres. At present, there are 17 Goducate centres serving some 2000 students.

The fabulous 5-course lunch was held at Privé Restaurant, situated on Singapore’s only private island. The event was an educational session as well, with Catherine Chan from Iconiq Image teaching about table etiquette, and Clinton Ang from Cornerstone Wines teaching wine appreciation. We learnt from Catherine tips such as how far to sit from the table, how to pass the bread basket round (anticlockwise), how to scoop up soup (towards the 12 o’clock position of the plate), and how to stir tea or coffee (silently in figure-of-eight motion). Clinton had us swirling, sniffing at, and listening to the wine. The men also learnt that they are not supposed to hold the wine glass by the stem but by the base—which is not at all convenient since both hands are needed to get the glass off the table first.

Goducate would like to thank the diners who bought tickets for the event, the ieatishootipost community for organizing the event, and all the sponsors of the event (Privé, Iconiq Image, Cornerstone Wines, Fresh Gourmet, Nuffnang, and MHC Asia) for their generosity. $30,000 was collected for the Sabah learning centres that day.