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Goducate teaches Indonesians how to make Moringa capsules and tea

In previous blogs, we have mentioned the nutritional and therapeutic properties of Moringa. The leaves are traditionally used by lactating mothers for making soup to improve their milk production. The possibility of making Moringa capsule and tea has widened options for the intake of this plant.

Recently Prof Hope … … Read More

Goducate helps keep kids off the street

In two weeks time it will be vacation, and instead of playing or hanging around with some kids in the streets, these group of kids are taking advantage to learn musical instruments ( 1 week program)through Melissa, a 14 year old second year High School. ( Orchestra :violin Player) … … Read More

First Harvest at our Model Farm in Laguna, Philippines

Goducate’s little model-farm in Laguna is just beginning to bear fruit. This project started a year ago when we started vermi-culture using earth-worms (African night crawlers) to produce organic fertilizer from decaying vegetation.

After successfully learning how to produce quality organic fertilizer cheaply and efficiently, we taught many others … … Read More

Helping poor Asians – one backyard at a time (Part 2)

I was told by a Filipino friend that many Filipinos don’t plant vegetables in their backyard because their neighbors will simply help themselves to the vegetables. And most Filipinos would rather lose their vegetables than lose the friendship of their neighbors!

I believe that this is a real problem … … Read More

Helping poor Asians – one backyard at a time! (Part 1)

In my travels through Asia, I am saddened by the poor nourishment of many Asian children. My training as a doctor helps me to pick up signs of malnourishment (eg. under-sized children, late maturity, general lethargy) in almost every Asian country – whether rural or urban.

The average traveler … … Read More

Soap-making in new Goducate Center in Philippines

Our new Goducate Learning Center in Mabakan, Laguna, Philippines, is now teaching soap-making as a means of livellihood. This part of Laguna is famous for its hot-spring resorts. Many people from Manila visit these resorts, especially on the weekends. One of the largest resorts has agreed to buy our … … Read More

Saving our precious worms from the flood!

About 6 months ago, a few sponsors pooled together US$360.00 for our Goducate team in Laguna, Philippines to start a vermiculture (“vermi” is high-class word for “worms”) livelihood project.

Prior to this our Goducate team had been studying different methods of helping the poor to help themselves. They did … … Read More