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Goducate Children’s Home sells the first batch of chickens

Not long ago we reported that the Goducate Children’s Home in Prey Nob, Cambodia has started their livelihood self-sustainability projects with tilapia farming and the rearing of goats and chickens.

The chicken hatchery was set up with the help of a generous sponsor, and the first 200 chicken reached the desired weight of 1.2 kg last week. A supermarket chain has agreed to sell the chicken for the Home.

Defeathering and preparing the chicken for sale to the supermarket

The staff and some of the older children at the Home had a busy weekend preparing the chicken for distribution to the supermarket.

Read more about the Goducate Children’s Home in our newsletter 1/2011.

 

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New classrooms for the Goducate Children’s Home

The Goducate Children’s Home in Prey Nob, Cambodia, accepted 13 new children in April last year. In a few more weeks, they will be taking in five more children. At the moment, due to the lack of space, some of the kids had to have their homeschool lessons in the mess hall.

The Home recently started the construction of a building which will house at least two new classrooms. This building was sponsored by a generous donor at a cost of US$10,000/-.

Hopefully, the building will be fully furnished and ready for the new academic year which starts in September, and the children can begin their lessons in comfortable new premises.

The new classroom block
The interior
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Fishing for tilapia at the Goducate Children’s Home

Not long ago, our administrators at the Goducate Children’s Home in Cambodia reported that their tilapia fish ponds have taken off with lots of new fingerlings spawned within a short period of time.

It was thus with great anticipation that the Goducate representatives decided to try our hand at fishing when we visited the Home two weeks ago (20 to 23 July, 2011).

And we were not disappointed! Within 20 minutes, we managed to catch at least half a dozen medium sized tiliapia!

Fishing
Good catch!

Most of the hundreds of fishes are still in the ‘nursery’ stage. They will be full grown by year-end and will be ready for harvesting for sale at the local supermarket. Just another step for our Goducate Children’s Home to take in the process to become self-sufficient and for them to help themselves.