Poor students earn income using worms

Many Filipino teenage students who have not been able to finish their high school education because of poverty have enrolled in Goducate’s Alternative Learning System (ALS) courses in Laguna, Philippines. Some of them have also been taught to produce organic fertilizer for sale, using Goducate’s vermiculture system. The income from this provides their transportation fare to school.

Goducate provides the earth-worms (African night-crawlers) and the technical advice to these students. After one month, they are able to harvest first grade organic fertilizer which is readily sold. The income not only provides transportation fares for the students but also some surplus for their families!

This simple livelihood project provides are regular monthly income to these students.

Raising funds by performing at weddings, anniversaries and special events

Our Goducate center in Laguna, Philippines has trained an orchestra of musically talented young people to play beautiful music at special events.

Through this orchestra, these young people from poor families not only learn to use their talents but are also taught other useful skills, eg. discipline, hard work, team work.

They also serve as good examples to the other youths there.

The fees raised from their performances also helps to raise much needed funds for them and the Goducate Center.

In the Philippines where music is very much a part of every celebration, the Goducate Orchestra is a wonderful way of helping Asians help themselves.

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