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Products
Since the very beginning of its history, the young people
at Fazenda da Esperança are not living from money of
their parents, but from their own work. Every community is
trying to establish working areas, which can provide the necessary
income for the needs of the community. Once a month everybody
would sit together to take a look at the accountability, how
much did we spent for food, energy, water etc. and how much
did we earn with our work. In this way they are learning about
the value of their work and are becoming responsible for their
lives.
Milk Products
Still during the first months of the mission in Masbate, we
asked ourselves during breakfast, why we should drink powder
milk having so many heads of cattle here. So we started to
milk some of them, at from that time on, we always had fresh
milk for our own consumption. Since we also offered milk to
our visitors, more and more people were asking us to supply
them also, and little by little we started to sell some liters
to some friends. First in empty soft drink bottles, but soon
we realized for milk is very easy to spoil, we had to buy
new plastic bottles. The sells were continuously increasing,
a big push was the idea to offer also flavored milk. Today
we are selling milk in bottles of one liter and 250ml, pure
white milk, but also with choco, mango, strawberry, buko pandan,
melon and ube flavor. We are supplying different outlets in
Masbate City and a number of regular costumers, some are even
coming all the way to Fazenda to buy milk.
Beside the milk, also cheese, butter, yoghurt and other dairy
products are made at Fazenda.
Vegetable
Same as with the milk, we started to plant vegetable for our
own consumption, but more and more people tasted it, and wanted
to buy it. So we increased the area of our garden, and are
now regularly selling vegetable.
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