13-year-old Matthew Mendoza, a Goducate Orchestra violinist, has received a pleasant surprise at the Mabakan Learning Center, where he teaches the violin to some other children. The mothers of those children there have pooled together to give him 50 peso ($1) an hour for the lessons he gives every Saturday afternoon. The idea is that this money will go towards his studies.
Matthew, who began to learn the violin just over a year ago, is one of the 5 musicians selected during the making of the Channel News Asia program Once Upon a Village to go to Singapore for further training later this year.
His violin students, too, are teachers. They teach other children to play the recorder. All this is in keeping with Goducate philosophy of helping the needy to help themselves—and to help others.
