Help Families Grow their Own Food in Rural Haiti

The Pliche Women's Organization (OFAP)Organization in the spirit of fighting against the problem of food insecurity, set up with its own means a small project of marsh culture. As part of this activity, the Organization will create a garden for the Organization on a space of ¼ acre (3225 square meters) and it will allow 25 other women to make their own small garden on a space of 1/16 acre (about 900 square meters). The program started with these crops (pepper, tomato and spinach) but they will add other crops and more women if the means allow them in the future.

The second part of the 2022 Grow Your Own Food project was launched in March 2022 for 94 beneficiaries from 11 Organizations. Lambi Fund disbursed 940,000.00 gourdes for it. Each beneficiary member received between 10 thousand and 20 thousand to add on what they had in their hands to buy the agricultural inputs needed to set up the fields but also organized konbits (group efforts) with other members of the Organization to do all the work necessary for the planting (preparing the soil, sowing the seeds, weeding, watering, harvesting, etc.) Lambi Fund provides these supports at the time of the planting seasons where there is a lot of rain so that the planters can get as much yield as possible from the fields they achieve. Peasant crops are varied depending on the season (there are at least 2 planting seasons / year) but also on the location (depending on whether they are in the mountains or in the plains and their small micro-climates). In some areas peasants plant corn, millet, beans, peanuts, cassava, yams, but in other areas there are more marshy crops such as spinach, peas, peppers, tomatoes. The first planting season (Springtime) is over, all the beneficiaries of the first part of the project have harvested. It was agreed that the first beneficiaries would have to repay half of the loan. Members abide by their commitments, March-April was considered the repayment period and new members are joining the project. Each Project Organization started with 20-22 members and after the first harvest and reimbursements there are about 8 additional members / organizations joining the project. Currently, all activities for the Fall planting are continuing, fields are being set up, new beneficiaries are being selected for funding and the Lambi Fund Regional Monitor continues to accompany the Organization and monitor the evolution of the project.
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• Women signing paperwork for micro credit project (DOCX)