Due to the poverty of the education many families in the rural surroundings suffer of the malnourishment and luck of income which doesn't allow them to take proper care of their numerous siblings.

Helping to such kind of poor, daughters of Saint Augustine are trying to mobilize their internal recourses and find out the ways of improving their lives without any significant amount of money and will help to preserve and promote the environment.

Among those methods we are running following on-going entrepreneurial projects:

COCO-CORN
The Coconut-corn Farming Program has successfully obtained dual ends for both the Fatima Center for Human Development and the numerous farmers from the various barangays of San Agustin, Macaangay, San Andres, Coguit and San Pedro.

The proceeds of the Coconut-Corn farming program has financially supported various projects and programs of the congregation at the same time providing employment for people from poor families and tribal communities hires as farmers and farm helpers.

Our sisters and their assistants provide the tribal communities with appropriate technology and technical knowledge and skills and farming through trainings and seminars.

The continuity of the program and the abundant yields every harvest seas has proven that the program is being successfully undertaken. Harvests are sold in the market.

RECE FARM
From1999 up to the present the congregation of the Daughters of Saint Augustine through its social arm Fatima Center cultivates 12 hectares of rice farm. Rice is harvested from the farm are sold in the local markets and some are used as the staple food in the center.

PIGGERY
In the Fatima Center sisters also maintain a piggery that serve both as income generating project and an avenue to develop the sense of responsibility and value of hard work and cooperation among the orphans and young adults in the institution.

Pigs and piglets are sold in the local markets, supplies in business establishments, food chains and commercial stores. Some pigs are also butchered within the community and the meat is also processed into longganisa, german sausages, tocino which are being sold and at times used as viands in the community.

FISHPOND
The congregation also raises tilapias and breeds fingerlings for commercial and community consumption. In between planting seasons the rice farms are converted into fishponds so than the land will not be left idle.
Aside from the income obtained from the project the idle lands will also be fertilized since the feeds for the fish contain nutrients.

GARDENING
The gardening project of DSA provides the institution primary source of food consumption. Aside from this, vegetable such as eggplants, cabbage, pechay, strung beans, squash etc. are sold in the local markets to generate income.

FOLIAGE NURSERY
Fatima Center also obtains sourcing of funds from its foliage nursery project. Plants are sold or rented to decorate local establishments such as banks.

HAND-MILLED SOAP MAKING
We also produce soap supplied primarily Columban community in Metro Manila. People in the institution also utilize hand-milled soap in their daily needs.

SEWING AND FOOTWEAR MAKING
Bags, dress, place mats, door mats and other sewing materials and shoes, sandals and slippers are being produced by local people in the center and are being sold in the market. The congregation owns 8 sewing machines and a machine used in footwear making in this project.

ORGANIC COMPOST MAKING
Organic compost making in being practiced by our community to bring waste materials into good use. This project helps minimize the expense on fertilizers and helps protect and promote the environment. Organic compos are utilized as fertilizers in the agricultural ventures of the our social center.