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Goducate Children’s Home in Cambodia prepares to rear goats and chickens

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Tilapia raising is not the only livelihood project that the Goducate Children’s Home is embarking upon. Goat raising is also a good livelihood project. Different species of goats have to be raised for different purposes. Although we would like to raise various species, we are at present focusing on … … Read More

Veg@table project gathers pace in Dayap

Grace pulling out her flowering plants to make way for beans

It takes only a spark to get a fire going. After seeing Nanay Anita’s vegetable plants in her frontyard starting to bear fruit, her neighbours want to turn their frontyards into vegetable patches too. One neighbour, Grace, a mother of 2, decided to pull out her flowering plants to … … Read More

First fruit in Dayap

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The lady who was our pioneer in Goducate’s backyard/frontyard veg@table farming project is already seeing the rewards of her labour. Towards the end of November, the manager of our model farm went to Dayap to help Nanayanita turn her frontyard into a vegetable patch. Dayap is the village where … … Read More

Backyard farming starts in Talahiban area

Sandy, a volunteer at the Goducate model farm, has started to introduce backyard farming to the Talahiban area, where he works. He has “borrowed” 1 kg of African night crawlers from the model farm for the first family in Talahiban to start backyard farming. The condition is that 1 … … Read More

New projects at the Cambodia Goducate Children's Home

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The raining season in Cambodia is over, and construction on a few projects commenced at the Goducate Children’s Home in Prey Nob, Cambodia, in Dec 2010. One of the projects was to build a security fence around the farm area. Fruits and vegetables used to disappear, or else get … … Read More

Progress at Goducate’s first backyard farm

On Dec 13 I reported on how Goducate model-farm manager went to Dayap village to help start up our first backyard (or frontyard) farm. He has since returned to Nanayanita’s vegetable patch. The pictures show how the long-bean plants have grown.

Nanayanita and two other women from Dayap also … … Read More

Goducate Training Center, Iloilo, Philippines must help itself (2)

Goducate’s main training center in Iloilo, Philippines, where most of Goducate’s future community workers will be trained is fast taking shape.

The main objective of this Training Center is to produce workers who can educate Asia’s needy people to help themselves – especially in livelihood skills. As most of … … Read More

Goducate Training Center, Iloilo, Philippines must help itself!

The Goducate Training Center in Iloilo, Philippines is being developed presently. So far the following has been done: the perimeter fence around the 11.2 hectares of land, the irrigation lake and canals, deep wells, roads, plant-nursery, green-house, vermi-culture beds, activity fields, clearing of land, terracing of slopes, planting of … … Read More