Economic Growth Haiti Project #4618

Help Families Grow their Own Food in Rural Haiti

by Lambi Fund of Haiti

Project Report | Dec 28, 2021
More ground-shaking Horror!

By Josette Perard | Executive Director

In the Southern Department, where the earth shook on August 14, 2021, Lambi has served about 60 grassroots organizations established throughout 11 communes (averaging about 100 members per organization). Almost all of these organizations contacted the Lambi Fund for assistance as they are accustomed to doing in the event of natural disasters. This disaster set many projects, activities and evaluations behind as it led to worse roadways than before and much flooding cutting off access to our partners. Altough the damage was major, it did not stop our partners or us from pushing through.

As part of our emergency relief project, Phase 1 was the immediate humanitarian emergency response. More than 2,209 members from 34 Organizations participated in this program. Each Organization received 500,000.00 Haitian Gourdes (htg), but only 2 of them received 250,000.00 htg each. In total, the Lambi Fund spent 14,865,000.00 htg for this first phase. It was completed in September where beneficiaries used the money that they received to buy food, water, tarps and some 2x4 wood to deal with the difficulties they were facing at the time and build temporary shelter for their families.

Lambi is also currently monitoring 16 environmental (10 nurseries), livestock, agricultural and community credit projects in the Southern and Artibonite Departments. Some of these projects launched 2 years ago with 4 of them currently approaching completion.

An astonishing 300,000 seedlings are in the process of production. We have 6 community credit or ox-plows projects, which also include an environmental aspect where a total of 100,000 seedlings are being produced. Distribution has already begun to members so that they can plant in their fields and further protect their land by creating small community forests.

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Jun 25, 2021
Determination & Commitment Remain Essential!

By Katiana Anglade | Project Leader

Tending to the seedlings

Unrest continues to grow in the streets of Port-au-Prince halting life and the everyday activities of people already struggling to survive. While the number of kidnappings has decreased, the terror people face has morphed into a new form. The rising insecurity from gang violence has caused so many to be displaced abandoning their own homes because of the constant bullet showers. These families have had no other choice but to seek safety in public arenas while armed gangsters take refuge in their once peaceful communities. What can the people do when they can no longer count on the Police to uphold law and order? Nothing but shelter in place. The capital is under seige and everyday we walk past corpses on the streets. No institutions are currently functioning in the country, including the Police and Judicial system; none can do anything to counter this darkness.

Along with these threats of physical and political insecurity, no one can forget the growing threat of food insecurity in Haiti. The people are living in hunger and misery along with an excessive cost of living, which results in the decline of their already thin buying power. There aren't enough means to purchase even the essential items that are needed to basically survive. What makes all of this worse, is that it is happening while COVID-19 has begun to make its presence greater again across the country. Hospitals in heavily populated areas are already beyond capacity and do not have the space or infrastructure to accept any other patients suffering from the pandemic's symptoms. The lack of response from government agencies has left the population to fend for itself - again.

All of the insecurity has caused Lambi significant delays in the evaluation phase of projects, both old and new. The pressure grows even more now while the country lives in constant fear. Although life is not moving the way it should be, the demands are still flowing in for partnerships with grassroots organizations. Although it has been difficult to get to project sites, Lambi was able to launch 4 new Environmental projects during the first quarter of 2021. Our Regional monitors have worked tirelessly to make contact with several organizations that were under investigation to work with the Lambi Fund. The evaluations were delayed due to the lack of safety, but were completed nonetheless.

The alternative credit project that we partnered with OPK (Oganizasyon Peyizan Kalabat) on, providing them with a 750,000 Haitian gourdes (htg) fund has been quite fruitful. The amount of members that have benefited from this fund continues to grow with 202 benefitting from the merchant credit and 43 benefitting from the planters credit. The organization has already brought in a profit of 308,700 htg and reimbursed Lambi Fund 268,250 htg leaving them with 40,450 htg. Altogether they have 790,450 htg available to continue to circulate throughout their members.

The wheel of success keeps turning because of your support! Don't forget to share so that it can multiply!

Transporting some of her merchandise

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Feb 17, 2021
Moving forward... one planter at a time!

By Katiana Anglade | Project Leader

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