The rainy season is fast approaching in the Philippines. Thankfully, most of the rain has fallen in other parts of the Philippines and has been rather light on our camp-site in Iloilo, Philippines.
As the roads leading to the camp-site will be muddy, work requiring heavy equipment must be done before the heavy rains come. Also, heavier building materials (eg. steel beams, concrete posts) must be brought on site before the roads become unpassable to heavy trucks.
We are doing our best not to damage the roads leading to the campsite as this will affect our neighbours, who are mostly poor rice farmers. If we want to help poor Asians help themselves, these are the first group of people that we should do our best to help.
We are planning a seminar for them to teach them how to increase their yields by growing hybrid rice. Learning to work with them will help our trainees to work with other poor farming communities in Asia.
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