Philippines

Bolstered by successful farm profits, 415 children equipped for back to school season

Photo: Children in an impoverished community with no means to purchase school supplies are happy to receive all the supplies they’ll need to enroll in school. Thanks to your generous donations and profits from our farmland enterprise, we recently distributed school supplies to 415 impoverished children — last Friday they received notebooks, pens, pencils, pencil

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New coconut grove, fishery improvements to aid children’s outreach

Photo: Students from our girls home are happy to pose in a celebratory coconut harvest photo before heading to school. Our new coconut grove has matured, now with 145 trees yielding coconut harvests 3 times annually — we reap a harvest of 1,400 coconuts per year. The younger coconuts are used in the children’s diets

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Philippines: Our first small-scale fishery harvest yields half-ton of fish

Photo: After several hours of netting and dividing, harvest yielded over 2,700 mature fish. We are thankful to report that over 2,700 mature fish were harvested at our Philippines fishery weighing in at about 1,000 pounds. This yielded a significant profit as fish are in high demand in the market. We expect harvest rates to

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Thanks to farmland profits, 400 impoverished children enrolled in school

Photo: Students happy to show you a harvest of eggs yielded from our farmland enterprise! Thanks in part to profits from our farmland project, 400 impoverished children received backpacks and school supplies, enabling them to enroll for the start of the Filipino school year, which began this month. These school supplies are items their families

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New small-scale fishery project launched; profits to fund outreach program

Photo: Our Philippines Director is happy to show us the “mother fish” that will multiply into an abundant harvest in 6 months’ time. We’re very excited to announce that our new small-scale fishery project has now been completed on the island of Cebu in the Philippines. The new concrete-lined pond holds a volume of approximately

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