Help Families Grow their Own Food in Rural Haiti

Our mission is to foster democratic practices and increase opportunity for sustainabilty among rural farmers in Haiti.  Towards that the mechanization of the work in the family farms results in expanding of acreage prepared for food productio, more time efficiency in food production and increase capacity to secure food availabilty to the local population.  In addition, Lambi Fund  assists farmers to transform grains to cereal  to avail nutritious intake for all levels of the population.

COPADET, Peasant Cooperative for the Development of Tobeck is a model of improvement in the expansion of food production and its strategies increase opportunity for the community farmer to have revenue producing actiities in a civil society facing a very high rate of unemployment.  COPADET is located in the south of Haiti where Hurricane Mathew exceeded a billion dollar in damages on October 4, 2016.  The organization partners lost all gardens that were due for harvesting in Novemver of 2016.  A four months drought followed where all farmer without acess to irrigation canals lost their december crop and a large crop of corn and a variety of legumeswere  lost to an infestation of caterpillar. 

The lambi Fund partnered with COPADET to double their effort at securing food [production.  We provided four oxen and two plows to double the production for this season.  In comparaison to hand tilling, the oxen pulled plow delivers 10 times the speed of labouring and tilling allowing farmers to tripple their revenue. COPADET also availed 10,000 gourdes to 45 of its members to purhase the plowing service nd expand the area planted.

Since the inception of the project in November of 2016, farmers received the loan reimbursed in a timely fashion as they have harvested thousands of marmites(5lbs containers) of beans.  Henri, a member of Copadet who, reported for the first time harvest over $3500 of beans sold on the local market.  He has since replanted and ready to harvest his second round for the year. 

As you supported our first two phases of assistance and partnership post this major event, you were a contributor that made it possible for this population to move quickly to sustain their own efforts in the future.  Today,  COPADET members are working diligently to keep moving forward as their repayment makes it possible for other members to expand their production. 

We are so grateful for the solidarity and help you showed our people.  Today COPADET members are back to their production activities moving away from the damaging impact of Hurricane Mathew.  THANK YOU.

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