Gender Equality Haiti Project #23479

Revenue Creation for Women in Rural Haiti

by Lambi Fund of Haiti

Revenue Creation for Women in Rural Haiti

Project Report | Jun 25, 2022
Women's Projects Quarter 1 2022

By Karen Ashmore | Project Manager

Since the Lambi Fund has existed, it has always supported Women's Organizations throughout Haiti. In this sense, the Lambi Fund trainers guide women on “gender equity” and in project management to help them manage their activities to generate revenue for their families.

Women are supported by Lambi for specific project requests from the women's organizations (trade, commodity processing, storage, planting) or from Lambi's emergency response to a natural disaster.

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Currently under a program that began in late December 2021 in the Southern department of the country, the Lambi Regional Monitor continues to accompany 126 women from 6 local organizations who each received a grant of 315,000 gourdes to conduct a microcredit / trade project. Lambi Fund provided training to thses women to ensure a successful project. The local organizations asked the recipient members to reimburse part of the monthly fee for 6 months. With these reimbursements, the organizations brings in 5-7 new women into the project each month. From December to March 2022, this program, which began with 126 women, now has 246 women. Women sell food, cosmetics, clothing and sandals. The small profits they make on sales of these products allow them to reimburse the organizations correctly and to set aside some amounts for their own families.

According to the testimonies of the women who have benefited from these projects, they have many advantages:

• Small amounts of money will be provided to support the household (food, school supplies, doctor care, etc.)

• Women who are members of the Organization represent a role model for all other women in their communities

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Dec 28, 2021
Earthquake Devastation!

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 29, 2021
Growth From The Inside Out!

By Katiana Anglade | Project Leader

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.

Despite all of this uncertainty and unrest, Asosyasyon Fanm Vanyan Fyèvil (AFVF) continued to show such amazing progress since implementing the changes we discussed in our last report to you. Several small committees were established throughout the communities AFVF serves to pay closer attention to the goats' health needs in an effort to produce better results. The essential medications that were needed are now readily accessible since the organization has made arrangements with the smaller groups to store larger quanitities. They have established a more streamlined system of distribution to the members as well.

The goats are doing so well that the members are able to sell the older ones that have been replaced with younger goats. There were 26 kids that were born during the first quarter in 2021 from the 216 goats the organization had distributed bringing them to 242 goats altogether. Unfortunately, they ended up losing 38 goats that fell sick, leaving them with 204. As of today, all 120 members of AFVF have received a goat with 65 of them receiving twice. It is amazing to be able to share with you that 61 of the goats have already birthed 98 kids!

What can we say? The more, the merrier!

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