Food Security Haiti Project #20869

Let's Plant Trees in Haiti, Together!

by Lambi Fund of Haiti

Project Report | Dec 2, 2015
Together ahead with a new planting season.

By Marie Marthe Saint Cyr | Executive Director

Environment At worse

As I write to you today, Josette said this afternoon. " Oh my god after nearly 8 months without rain, it is raining and we are afraid our trees and new seedling are getting overwatered and may even be washed away". No exageration it is one of the most difficult season with over half the year emerged in a drought. The planting season suffered but our environment projects started towards the end of the month of September 2015. We have three projects of 120,000 trees each. In addition each project initiated will be planting 20,000 trees as part of their reforestation goal. Each one has started their nursery production. As as the Association of Peasant Working Heads Together, referred to as APTK

The environment project of APTK was launched on September 21, 2015. Training for nursery workers and volunteers took place between the 19^th and 20^th. A total of 28 participants (13 women, 15 men) completed the training. They expended 193,650 gourdes for the construction the trellis in the three localities identified for their reforestation sites. The locations are: Besi, gran Plas and Sizon.

The organization works twice a week on the nursery project. They have seeded 12,000 individual tree seeds in two of the localities. During the first year, they will produce 60,000 trees in three zones. 20,000 fruit trees will be integrated in each 60,000 tree production. This is the rainy season and it is a good time to start before the pending dry season.

With your support we have began to reach our goal of planting 500,000 trees this year ending in 2016. Our three projects combined will deliver 360,000. In addition 4 projects in sustainable agriculture and animal husbandry, micro credit will generate 20,000 each for a total of 440,000. This program is possible because of the committment of people like yourself.

We are grateful and wish you a peaceful Holiday Season with your friends and family!

The hope is in new plant growing across Haiti

together working for a new look

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Sep 3, 2015
Partnership for a Green Haiti

By Marie Marthe Saint Cyr | Executive Director

Planting trees and the environment is a priority of major proportion to the Lambi Fund. It is one that keeps us on alert so it is not incidental that we are asking people to plant trees together for a green Haiti. That request came from the perspectice that to create change, there must be awareness, action and reaction to the outcome. Well in Bige, in the locality of Grosmorne, when people are entering the community the change is noticeable, we see green at eye level with the growing trees over the last five years. As you walk through the changes are most striking, the goats are enclosed in pastured ground and there is food field at proximity, keeping the ground covered and there is more work in preparing the feed for the coming season.

We are pleased to report that we engaged many partners like you during this appeal: There were 160 persons who responded in social media and 90 others shared with their "in-group".

Let’s Plant Trees in Haiti, TOGETHER! received overwhelming support on social media. Facebook posts about the campaign were liked 160+ times and were shared over 90 times by different individuals. This support from our social media followers allowed us to share the message of Let’s Plant Trees in Haiti, TOGETHER! to a much wider audience!

Log House Plants, a nursery based out of Cottage Grove, Oregon, curated a collection of Caribbean plants to be sold to benefit the Lambi Fund of Haiti. The Grow Haiti Collection features 10 plants that are native to Haiti and surrounding areas, but can also be grown in the Pacific Northwest. The collection includes 2 varieties of peanuts, scotch bonnet peppers, and a variety of tomato that dates back to the colonial period in Haiti. These plants were sold at nurseries in Oregon, Washington, and California, as well as Lambi Fund’s benefit in New York City in July.

Thanks to the generosity of the Global Giving Family and you, we will be planting 42,000 trees this year, thus far.

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