Category: Cambodia

Agriculture is part of the livelihood training given to the children at the Goducate Children’s Home in Cambodia. A few years ago the Home started raising livestock, and last year it started the vermicast project that gets compost from earthworms. In February this year, the Home started to raise ducks.

We started with 50 ducklings, and some of the older boys in the Home were trained and assigned to feed the ducks and harvest the eggs.

Initially the ducks were fed on rice husks only. They started producing eggs in the second month but the harvest was only 3-5 eggs a day. So in April we began to give them commercial feeds. Since June we have been more than 500 eggs a month, enough to meet the needs of the home.

The Goducate Children’s Home sits on a 6.5 hectare piece of land on high ground in the district of Prey Nob Cambodia. Many years ago when the land was first purchased, a deep well was drilled in the middle of the land which hit a spring. It has been giving clear, pure spring water ever since.

Recently, Rawlings Institute, a private educational establishment in Cambodia, requested the Home to bottle the water and provide the staff and students with a regular supply of bottled water.  The water was sent for testing for its mineral content A pump was installed to pump the water out from the well for bottling.

The older children at the Goducate Children’s Home in Prey Nob Cambodia helped out in the farm as part of their agricultural and livelihood training. After months of tending to fruit trees, the Home has seen the rewards.

The small soursop trees have borne fruit, and so has the dragonfruit.