The children at the Goducate Children’s Home not only attend school daily but also receive training in livelihood skills. Both the boys and the girls learn agricultural skills, which should come in useful when they return to their home villages. The older boys also learn some engineering and construction skills. A workshop for boys was completed in Sept 2012. The older girls have been learning to bake, and the arrival of community development workers from the Goducate Training Center in the Philippines has enabled them to widen the range of delicacies they can prepare.
A girls’ workshop is now under construction, and should be completed by the end of the year. We plan to introduce lessons in sewing, basic cosmetology, and other livelihood skills.
In recent months, teams of staff and older children from the Home have been going out to different communities to teach English. Those who attend these English classes can also benefit from learning livelihood skills. Thus we plan to use the workshop to train both residents and non-residents of the Home.
