The Bohol Coconuts 2025 Livelihood Projects team will be directed by Community Relations Director Lerma Moore. The club will sponsor a variety of income-generating partnerships with families of club members that will benefit both parties.
Besides her duties with the baseball club, Lerma is currently serving her second term as a councilmember on the Cambanac Barangay Council. The Bohol native will also oversee the Women’s Club, a group that offers home-based business opportunities and other services to mothers of club members.
2025 LIVELIHOOD PROJECTS:
Ube Gardening
Budget: $2,000
Beneficiaries: 20 families
Income Potential: $300 to $500 per family
The club will provide tubers and supplies to families of club members to grow Ube (purple yam) that the club will purchase at market rate.
Ube jam is a Filipino favorite and is made by boiling and mashing ube with sugar and coconut milk. Ube jam can be spread on bread, used as a filling for pastries, or enjoyed as a topping for desserts like halo-halo, a popular summer treat.
Ube is also used in other desserts like ice cream, cakes, cookies, and even in puto bumbong, a steamed rice cake.
Mosquito Repellant Candle Making
Budget: $2,000
Beneficiaries: 50 families
Income Potential: $400 to $1,200 per family
The club will provide nightly candle making classes to make Citronella Candles in different sizes that the club will purchase at market rate.
Mosquito bites are a big problem in the mountains of Bohol Island and poverty-stricken families are forced to use mosquito coils. The emission of formaldehyde from burning one coil can be as high as that released from burning 51 cigarettes. The smoke also contains heavy metals, pesticides, and volatile organic compounds, which can irritate the respiratory system and potentially contribute to long-term health problems like lung cancer.
The club will offer both Tiny Tapers (1/2″ Diameter) and Standard Tapers (7/8″) citronella candles as an alternative to mosquito coils, with a 4.5″ length Tiny Taper costing less than one mosquito coil.
Brick Manufacturing
Budget: $5,000
Beneficiaries: 10 families
Income Potential: $2,000 to $3,000 per family
The club will operate a cement block manufacturing business with 10 part-time positions that will offer cement blocks to club member families at a 35% discount off the market rate.
Housing remains a big problem in the Philippines despite deadly tropical storms with high wins and earthquakes. By offering cement blocks at lower prices, more families will be able to make improvements to their homes that will provide club members more safety during all types of natural disasters.
