By Marie Marthe Saint Cyr | Executive Director
The most important aspect of the work of the Lambi Fund of Haiti is to support activities that generate revenue and are sustainable. The lack of employment in general, and the lack of new job categories renders farming a critical component for survivability. Although not on the higher scale of government priorities, and for investors the least appealing, it is first in the livelihood of over 5 million rural community dwellers in Haiti.
Creating jobs that create revenue is integrated in every aspect of the work we support accross vulnerable communities:
The Lambi Fund of Haiti has supported 24 projects in 2014, amongst which 7 have been evaluated and are functioning on their own within their third year of operation.
We added 6 new initiatives among them:
IPTKSK: (United Heads Together in Savanne kare) addressing the extended drought in the northwest building 30 cisterns to provide potable water to 7,500 families.
SOFALA: (Solidarity of Active Women in Lafrezilie) Peanut butter production.
KOFOKA: (Coordination of Women Organized in Akin) enhanced production of fruit and peanut and community credit.
OPB: (Organization Peasant of Boula) OX plow and community credit for farmers.
ACHVRO: (Association for Changing the View of Ravyn Olyan) Increasing the production of cane syrup by adding three more commercial broilers/community credit fund for women merchants.
ODEPERIB (Organization for the Development of White River) Expanded community credit to women and management training.
In all, the organizations together planted over 422,000 new seedlings which have been distributed and planted accross the community. To promote farming necessitates a formal plan to redress the ravaged eroded environment accross the country. An effort that must become national to make the impact effective.
Thank you for supporting the work of the rural farmers, taking charge of their communities and making a difference in their own lives.
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