For a time MINSAC Porac went had to lie low. It needed time and space to plan how else to improve and mobilize everyone and everything in Katutubo Village for good. It needed time to tap friends, benefactors and even classmates of yester years to get their minds on how to find ways and means to survive in spite of poverty and to move on for a better living. The project: GO A-Farming evolved. After all the Aetas are farmers by occupation. They only need someone to keep them on the go. And this is just exactly what S. Ma. Adora de Guzman, RVM, also known as S. Doris, had been doing at the onset of this school year. She goes to places touching people to get their support for this project. Yes, everyone in the village is just so excited to plant anything that would feed them. Even the four RVM Senior Novices on a one-month exposure are in the farm planting. They just enjoy working together.

At this writing, S. Doris has already a few square meters of 3-inches sprouting cornfield, a few square meters of pineapple plantation that she got from a friend in Tagaytay City and a few more square meters of vegetable garden-seedlings from good friends tapped for the purpose.

The Sisters even had to go as far as Talabera, Pangasinan to get more seeds and seedlings for the farm. She has already mobilized the villagers to plant kamoteng kahoy around their yards. The school populace is not spared of the project. The teachers have managed their pupils to fence the school campus with it.

Tree planting? Yes. In August, a Mahogany Tree Planting around the school compound has been through. And we look forward for more trees to plant! S. Doris has become an instant agriculture fanatic. She’s all eyes now for more projects to work on.

Indeed, friends are valuable if their Christian heart is touched. Put Christ’s hands and hearts into their being and they respond voluntarily.