By Marie Marthe Saint Cyr | Executive Director
When 438 farmers, representing 71 rural peasant organizations, showed up to join the Lambi Fund of Haiti to reflect on the 20 years of partnership, it was a time for celebration. More importantly, it was a time to affirm that change is a long term process and that there is no room to step back. As the issues emerge, it is clear that our partnership with locally knowledgeable farmers assure that strategic solutions are implemented that make a difference.
2014 is only four years after the devastation of the 2010 earthquake, but having been in Haiti for 20 years, we have learned that from the bottom up, Haitian peasants are making a difference in their local communities, building a stronger economy with the investments we have made together in partnership, investments that allow Haitians to begin to meet their extraordinary potential.
At the same time, the Lambi Fund continues to work on projects of economic development and sustainable agriculture and environment, contributing to long term rebuilding. For the northeast, plagued with an 8-month drought that is impacting every life in the three communities in which we are working - Didyet, Lakoma and Mawotye - each community is getting 10 new cisterns to provide water to 7,500 families.
This is in addition to the fourteen cisterns built in 2012 each of which provide water for up to 90 families. It is all adding to the long term rebuilding of Haiti.
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