By Dr. Heather P. Hall | Director - International Development
As a result of the August 2020 seed distribution, beans, yucca, sweet potato, and spinach were planted, blossomed, and harvested! In the community of Balan, farmers sold some of the harvest surplus after feeding their households, and also donated spinach seeds to the seed bank to help ensure program sustainability. Other beneficiary farmers who planted in the December rainy season will reap the harvest around March or April.
There were small donations of spinach, okra, and black beans crops that were used primarily to feed 300 students, many of whom receive their only daily meal at the CIMA School of Hope. Sonje-Ayiti has a separate project to help feed these children and provide for their education.
Phase 11 of the seed distribution planned for January 2021 has been delayed due to a lack of funding and supplies. Unfortunately, donations from the on-going GlobalGiving campaign have been minimal over the past several months and insufficient to provide substantial help to the Emergency Seed Bank project.
Sonje-Ayiti has an approved request for vegetable seeds through another seed distribution program. Those seeds are expected to be delivered in March and will be distributed in Phase 11 around the end of April. It is expected that farmers will plant those seeds by May, which is the beginning of the next rainy season.
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