MHC Asia donates another vehicle to Goducate

Our corporate sponsor MHC Asia has donated funds for another vehicle for the Goducate model-farm in Laguna, Philippines. This is the fifth vehicle that MHC has donated to Goducate since last year. They first donated a vehicle for Goducate Batam when they heard that several of our Goducate workers nearly loss their lives when their old broken-down van flipped over in a remote part of Batam island.

Since then they have donated a van for our Sabah literacy centers and two vans for our Cambodian children’s home. MHC Asia has also provided free space for the Goducate Singapore office and other supporting services for that office. They have indeed been a real source of financial support and encouragement to us.

This vehicle will help our Goducate workers to transport materials to and from our model-farm to our Goducate learning centers in Laguna and to the market-place. This vehicle will help Goducate Laguna work to be more efficient in producing organic fertilizer (from earth-worms) and producing vegetables for food for our staff and for sale.

Our aim is to help the Goducate work in Laguna to be more self-supporting. The vehicle will also be used to transport many poor people in the Laguna area to the farm to learn scientific ways to produce food for their families and for sale. It is our aim to help them to help themselves.

Leo, who supervises Goducate Laguna is now looking for the right vehicle to buy with the funds sent from MHC Asia. As of now, it looks like it could be one of the two second-hand vehicles below.

Thumbnail sketch of Camp Goducate team, Iloilo Philippines

HERMES CERBO – is our campsite Architect and our Project Manager. He is the one taking care of all the matters in construction. Hermes worked in a Singapore architectural firm for four years,

JUDE LANGUB – is our Electrical Engineer. He is a retired senior officer of a private electric company in Panay.

GLEN GIRAO – is an Electrical Engineer, who presently working in an Electric Power Corporation who distributes electric power in different power companies. He’s helping as a volunteer consultant.

JERU SAMILO – ia a civil engineer who does our structural plans and supervises our work. He is also our camp program director .

MARTIN CERBO – is an architect and a contractor. He and his team will do the construction of our Multi-purpose Hall.

RIC PATRICIO – is an agriculture expert who is our volunteer agricultural consultant.

HOPE PATRICIO – is the soil expert who does all the soil testing for us. She also helps us putting our nursery. She is the wife of Ric Patricio.

MEPHIBOY – he is a Electronic Communication Engineer working in a Technical School but has offered to resign to help us on the farm. He was born and raised in his family farm.

JUN RUIZ – he is a plant pathologist. He is a part-time volunteer.

MAYETH MARRERO – is our building construction secretary and bookkeeper