Goducate representatives usually visit the Goducate Children’s Home at Prey Nob, Cambodia at least four times a year in order to keep abreast of the on-going work there. Our first visit for 2011 coincided with the Khmer New Year week in the middle of April.
During this recent trip, we decided on the spur of the moment to call the children up one by one for an ‘interview’; we do this at least once a year to assess their ability to speak, read and write English.
Many of the children have been at the Home for at least three years, and we are pleased to find that they could now understand simple English. The ones who arrived at the Home a year ago in March 2010, however, still had a long way to go. These newer ones needed an older child as an interpreter. However, we were still pleased to hear them recite the ABCs successfully, as well as count from one to ten in English!
