Economic Growth Haiti Project #4571

Contribute to Long-Term Rebuilding in Haiti

by Lambi Fund of Haiti

Project Report | Feb 9, 2018
Hurricane Mathews follow us

By Marie Marthe Saint Cyr | Executive Director

list of project in need of support

Often the major component of the Hurricane that is visible, concerning and emotionally compelling is the stark destruction of nature in the first days of the event. In the aquamarine blue of the tropical coast of carribean countries, it is difficult to maintain a relative understanding of the long-term aspect of the process of an adequate response. Beyond the urgency to save lives, recovering livelihood, there is also rehabilitation: Going back to where the people's operations, land, environment was before the disaster. With a dynamic media with more gust for trivia, we lose sight of so much. For countries like Haiti in the thrust of the natural events like earthquake and hurricane, storms, they take a serious step back in every aspect especially that of survival and development..

Long term building was redefined when the earthquake hit in 2010. However, since the earthquake, Haiti has suffered many other hurricanes like Sandy, Mathews, Maria that further destroyed the land, reduce the housing stock, increase lost of property and increase poverty.

We have created a partnership that is facilitating our long-term rebuilding objectives. The W. K. Kellogg Foundation join in partnership to enhance revenue producing activities in a region of the South Department where we have 21 projects distressed by hurricanes from 2016 and still in disrepair. This new partnership gives the Lambi fund the opportunity to operationalize 9 projects and recover their revenue activities to :

return them to the previous level of activity lost two years before in 2016.
decreasing level of poverty in the area
Improving production of food and transformation of goods
increasing grain storage capacity in the area.

The following organizations with a membership of 1241 (1241 familieswith an average of four children for a total of 4964 lives touched) will increase their production capacities as indicated below:

Union des Planteurs pour le development de PICO (UPLADEP) for grain storage and Ox-plowing capacity

An Chanje Lakay Pa n (ACHLAP), Mouvman Fratenite Major (MFM), TKL Romero, Movement Peyizan Lafrezilye (MPL), Oganizasyon Peyizan Bercy Kloma (OPBK) for Ox-plowing

Oganizasyon Peyizan pou devlopman Twa Mango (OPDTM) for animal Husbandry goat breeding

Koordinasyon Peyisan Mak (KPM) for environment, reforrestation

Oganizasyon pou devlopman Robert (ODRO) for milling rice

It is your donation that has enabled the Lambi Fund to provide the training and the administrative support needed to realize the goal of improving those organizations, these ffamilies and these communities.

THANK YOU for helping us have a successful journey to fuly recover from the storms.

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Nov 13, 2017
Natural Events: Challenge to rebuilding Haiti

By Lourdes Eliasin Mars | Deputy Director

transform the grain and feed the people

For 23 years, Lambi has made it its goal to help strengthen civil society in Haiti as a necessary foundation for democracy and development. This goal has translated into providing life-giving water to communities via cisterns, sustainable livelihoods to partners through community projects, and ensuring lush fertile land for future generations by way of environmental projects. Our partners are the catalyst to the long- term building in Haiti. From the launching to the evaluation portion of each two year project, partner organizations participate in every aspect. This bottom-up approach allows them to carve their own futures through the projects and accompanying trainings.

As 2017 comes to an end, it marks another busy and successful year to improve lives. Our overall 2017 portfolio comprised of 28 projects. The portfolio includes 21 projects that must be rehabilitated due to Hurricane Matthew’s destruction. Currently 16 of the 21 have been launched. Aside from those projects being rehabilitated, Lambi launched and is monitoring 12 other projects for 2017. In the Artibonite region, Lambi has 2 community micro-credit projects, 1 goat breeding project, and 4 environmental projects consisting of planting fruit and forest trees, establishing a mill for rice transformation, and production of plantains. In the South, Lambi has 4 community micro-credit projects and 1 environmental project comprised of planting trees. Every project includes trainings for partners.

Looking ahead, our partners still need assistance to return to a sense of normalcy post-Hurricane Matthew. Our priority is to rebuild the following: 3 mills, 7 ox-plowing services, 5 nurseries, 2 goat breeding projects and 4 community funds. The path to long-term building in Haiti begins with providing its citizens with the proper tools to determine their future and here at Lambi we take pride in knowing that all of our partners have that opportunity. This opportunity would be impossible without generous supporters who donate to our various projects. This act in itself adds to long-term building in Haiti and we hope that you will continue to support us.

building is a family and community affair

AFTA women conserve for tomorrow in local markets

nurseries initiated

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Aug 14, 2017
Facilitating Resilience Among Community Dwellers

By Marie Marthe Saint Cyr | Executive Director

Joining hands to reflect on the changes

Reconstruction is not automatic in Haiti, As resources diminish, land demarcation shifted and coastal cities threatened due to rising sea level, responsible leadership and institutions must reassess strategic location of projects for maximum impact to improve survivability of the community. Such was the focus of our last gathering on July 24th of this year. There is growing evidence of change occuring in the weather patterns, pluviosity and drought. These patterns changes are affecting the number of harvest, the volume of production, thus food security and food sovereignty where over 70% of the population depends on small family plot to earn a living and secure the well being of an average family of four.

As a small organization that has partnered with over 250 organizations with membership totaling over 10,000 families and having impacted the lives of more than 2 million Haitians. The Lambi Fund is making it a priority to create an awareness campaign and reconsider the criteria for supporting infrastructure for agricultural growth, such as mills, canals for irrigation, reforresting areas to protect water beds.

Establishing this dialogue is the first step in mobilizing a network of the farmers/partners, an essential component to building a consensus on advocay and improved awareness and developping a shared strategy for an adequate response.

Hurricane Mathews was devastating to the South of Haiti. 8 months later, the amazing greening of the South and the soft lime green of the bourgeoning trunks of once devastated trees are signs of hope that we must come together to reduce the devastation that threathened us all.

Your participation in the work of the Lambi Fund has made it posible and we are thankful.

Mathew disturbing the environment

Coastal devastation

new leaves sprouting

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