So far our Goducate workers have been able to produce large quantities of quality organic fertilizer from unwanted grass and vegetation using our hard-working earthworms (African night crawlers).
Hard working worms
However, the price that our workers get from the buyers of organic fertilizer is low. This problem of being squeezed by middle-men is one of the main reasons why Asian farmers are stuck in the poverty cycle. To overcome this problem, our Goducate team is presently working with a partner to find the right markets in Manila and abroad.
Outsize organically fertilized long beans versus normal long beans
Another way we hope to bypass middle-men is to use the organic fertilizer ourselves. One of our workers tested the quality of our fertilizer by planting a row of long beans in his garden. He fertilized some of his plants with our fertilizer and the others with “normal” fertilizer. All the other conditions were identical – same seeds used, same soil, same method of planting and tending – so that the only difference was the fertilizer used.
The result was quite amazing. The plants that were fertilized with our organic fertilizer had long beans that were almost twice as long and more than twice as thick as the ones that were fertilized using “normal” fertilizers.
We will be further developing our production of organic fertilizer and growing of vegetables in our new model-farm in Laguna. We hope to encourage the poor to use the simple methods that we develop to produce good food for themselves. We will also be using these methods to teach our Goducate trainee workers in our Goducate Campsite in Iloilo to produce food for themselves.
One of Goducate’s main means to help poor Asians to help themselves is to help them to feed themselves with decent food.
Goducate believes that every child deserves decent nutrition and decent education.
Goducate, with its mission of helping young adults in China to help themselves, has opened a second Lifepegs student activity center in southern China. The new center is located in one of the city’s major campus districts with a student population of 60,000 to 70,000 from 8 universities.
The core team of 3 native workers trained by Goducate worked hard to renovate and get the center started within 28… Continue reading
Five of the first batch of trainees who completed the Goducate training program for basketball officials did not have to wait long to get their first jobs. And the jobs were not for matches at village level (where they had done their training), but at inter-university level. This job opportunity for out-of-school youth arose with the 10-day visit of the Indonesian Youth Team from West Java to play against eight… Continue reading
Goducate believes in encouraging the students at the literacy centers to read. However, it has not been easy to set up a library, or somewhere to store books securely. For one thing the centers are scattered over a wide area. For another, many centers are the living rooms of the locals into which the students squeeze for their lessons, while others are very basic structures consisting just of a roof… Continue reading
At least this way, poor families could be able to experience a quality living.
I have been looking for a project such as exporting something that was produced by the poor.
I hope more young, talented and resourceful Asians will step forward and do our bit by helping Asians to help themselves. There’s no need to wait for the pot of gold to grow before one can help. If we do not address poverty issues at our backyard, who will?
The factors of production are:
land, labour, capital and maybe enterprise.
Put all together, and poor Asians indeed can help themselves.