Provide fruit trees to 300 rural farmers in Haiti

Friends of Rural Haiti:

We are aware that the news you hear from Haiti right now is bleak, and we are not going to lie. It is bleak. Economic decline, rise in kidnappings and violence, a strong earthquake in the south of the country, and the assassination of Haiti’s president. It is hard to visualize Haiti’s future.

The one thing we know to be true is that Haitians have no choice other than to move forward. Especially in rural Haiti, people are left to fend for themselves. This has really been the case all along. Organizations like Asosyasyon Peyizan Fondwa, Peasant Association of Fondwa (APF) have a thirty-year history of putting one foot in front of the other no matter what challenges are in their way.

APF continues to run a primary and secondary school, a rural University, a clinic, an orphanage, and several small businesses and agricultural projects. The small project you funded allows APF to distribute fruit trees grown in the APF nursery to families in the Fondwa region. These are young people, fathers and mothers ... some walking for almost two hours to reach the distribution point.

To date, the first 25 peasant families have received 10 seedlings each, along with the training needed to correctly plant and nurture these trees. Fruit trees provide not only economic opportunity for a family, they also provide sustenance and much-needed reforestation. Trees distributed included papaya, cherry, orange, coffee, breadfruit, and mango.

Even in the midst of such challenge and heartbreak in Haiti, important and sustainable work must continue. And, it does continue thanks to your partnership with us. If you can, please continue supporting this work by making another donation today, or committing to a recurring donation monthly. Many families want fruit trees. 

With determination and hope, 

Edrix Alcime (Project Leader) and the members of APF