Philippines - Naturally Negros

Welcome to Naturally Negros! Established in 2011, NN empowers Deaf Filipinos through employment, and livelihood training. All profits are directed to the support of Philippine Immanuel Churches of the Deaf, Inc. (PICD). Begun by a Deaf couple, PICD supports over 80 Deaf children and youth across the Visayas region so that they can receive and education. Spiritual input by Deaf Pastors has resulted in the planting of 10 Deaf churches throughout the region reaching about 250 Deaf individuals weekly. NN is a huge step forward in helping PICD to become self sustaining for the long term. Our first project was a pig in the back of the Pilot site. We have not expanded to our current full capacity of 83 head on both the pilot and 4.7 hectare farm site. When we learned about the lack of quality meat products we realized the Deaf could fill a niche in the food industry by producing quality ham, bacon, sausages and other specialty meat products. That was the beginning of our food processing facility. Since we process only those animals raised using our sustainable agricultural methods and our hand-mixed pro-biotic healthy feeds, we can assure a very high quality, tasty product for our largely foreign consumer base. To support the growing demand for additional products we started a layer hen project. This was followed quickly by a quail project that now produces over 1000 quail eggs daily. Chicken meat is also in short supply, so we set up an additional broiler project to supply...