The Goducate Children’s Home sits on a 6.5 hectare piece of land on high ground in the district of Prey Nob Cambodia. Many years ago when the land was first purchased, a deep well was drilled in the middle of the land which hit a spring. It has been giving clear, pure spring water ever since.
Recently, Rawlings Institute, a private educational establishment in Cambodia, requested the Home to bottle the water and provide the staff and students with a regular supply of bottled water. The water was sent for testing for its mineral content A pump was installed to pump the water out from the well for bottling.
On Feb 28, we reported that of the 19 candidates in the town of Bay, Laguna Province, who passed the examination held last November for the Alternative Learning System (ALS) examination at secondary level, 4 were Goducate students. These 4 were part of the 13 Goducate students who sat for that examination. Nationally, of the 221,598 candidates who took that examination, only 72,076 passed.
Jessica Iglesias, one of our 4 successful students has now been admitted to the Laguna State Polytechnic University, to take a 2-year diploma course in information technology. When she gets that diploma, she can continue working for another 2 years for her bachelor’s degree at the same university.
Jessica had only completed her 2nd year of education in a conventional high school, and has been working as a home help. She has now been awarded a 4-year scholarship under the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s 4 Ps (Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program) scheme, which aims to eradicate extreme poverty in the Philippines by investing in health and education,
The other 3 successful Goducate candidates are Goducate helpers. One of them, Jonathan Catedral is completing a TESDA course in pipe-fitting. Jenelyn Inopia is one of our Family Development Sessions facilitator, and Annaliza Espinola is a day-care teacher.
The successful Goducate candidates in BayJessica being congratulated by Department of Social Welfare and Development staff at the graduation ceremony.
The older children at the Goducate Children’s Home in Prey Nob Cambodia helped out in the farm as part of their agricultural and livelihood training. After months of tending to fruit trees, the Home has seen the rewards.
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The small soursop trees have borne fruit, and so has the dragonfruit.
