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Goducate Children’s Home in Cambodia prepares to rear goats and chickens

Tilapia raising is not the only livelihood project that the Goducate Children’s Home is embarking upon. Goat raising is also a good livelihood project. Different species of goats have to be raised for different purposes. Although we would like to raise various species, we are at present focusing on producing organic-meat goats.

To maintain success with this project, we have started seeding various kinds of legumes, to be able to provide the animals with a complete plant food. In about a year’s time we will buy several female goats and one male.

Chicken rearing is quite a difficult project that requires more care and monetary investment. However, our administrator’s experience with poultry has encouraged us to start breeding chickens as egg layers and as meat for sale.

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Veg@table project gathers pace in Dayap

Grace pulling out her flowering plants to make way for beans

It takes only a spark to get a fire going. After seeing Nanay Anita’s vegetable plants in her frontyard starting to bear fruit, her neighbours want to turn their frontyards into vegetable patches too. One neighbour, Grace, a mother of 2, decided to pull out her flowering plants to grow beans instead. So far 14 families in Dayap have joined the project.

Grace pulling out her flowering plants to make way for beans
Grace pulling out her flowering plants to make way for beans

Jordan (left), the farm manager, with a father pleased with his tomato seedlings that have sprouted
Children planting seeds

The manager of our model farm, who is helping the community there to plant vegetables, recalls how the children used to have little better to do than throw stones at passersby, himself included. Now they want to help with the planting.

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First fruit in Dayap

The lady who was our pioneer in Goducate’s backyard/frontyard veg@table farming project is already seeing the rewards of her labour. Towards the end of November, the manager of our model farm went to Dayap to help Nanayanita turn her frontyard into a vegetable patch. Dayap is the village where victims of 2009 Typhoon Ondoy’s damage in Manila were resettled.


Now she is admiring her long beans and tomatoes.