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Goducafé opens in Hyderabad
Part of Goducate’s Global LifeSkills Center in Hyderabad, India, has been turned into a café called Goducafé. The Global LifeSkills Center is a place where university students gather to learn about how to get on in the global world. They do so through listening to talks from and chatting with foreigners and locals about life in the corporate world, through debates, through giving talks themselves, through small-group discussions, etc.
What such young people also need is a cozy and “cool” international environment where they can hang out during their free time to study, chat, celebrate birthday parties, exchange information about jobs, careers and whatever they need to know for their future. If they didn’t have such a place, they would probably end up in pubs or bars. There are many bakeries in the city but these are often full to the brim. Hence the opening of “Goducafé…Where Students Connect”.
The café was officially opened on Jan 25 by M Bikshapahti Yadav, a member of the Legislative Assembly and Ravi Kumar Yadav, general secretary for Andhra Pradesh Youth Congress. Two friends from Singapore helped with the preparation of the food for the opening ceremony.
Goducate organizes Teachers’ Appreciation Days at schools hit by Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda)
Since last Saturday, Goducate has been setting up tent schools or putting tarpaulin on schoolrooms that lost their roofs in the villages in North Panay that were hit by Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda). There are four teams going round doing this.
At each school where these structures are set up, a Teachers’ Appreciation Day is held. The teachers deserve the appreciation because many have themselves lost homes, yet they turn up to teach under very difficult conditions. Each class appoints a representative to say words of appreciation to their teachers, and the students sing for their teachers, and present their teachers with thank-you cards that they have made and flowers they have picked up from the roadside. In addition, the Goducate massage team offers the teachers some stress relief.
The teachers have been touched by the gestures of appreciation, in some cases to the point of tears.
