Project Report
| Jun 29, 2021
Growth From The Inside Out!
By Katiana Anglade | Project Leader
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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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Feb 26, 2021
Our Women Partners = Perseverance!
By Katiana Anglade | Project Leader
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The months of December 2020 and January 2021 were quite busy for the members of Asosyasyon Fanm Vanyan Fyevil (Fyevil Association of Courageous Women). Our Regional Monitor worked closely with the management committee of AFVF along with 2 two of their previously contractaed Veterinarians to evaluate the progress of this project and their goats. Approximately 21 members participated in these meeting where they discussed the following:
- Difficulties they faced in acquiring essential medications needed to care for the ill goats.
- Revamping the process of distributing the baby goats.
- Monitoring the evolution of the troop and how the goats are interacting with each other.
- Necessity of reform in an effort to minimize miscarriages among the goats.
Based on those points, here are the solutions that the women were able to come up with:
- The veterinarians will assist the organization in getting the medications needed that are most prevalent throughout the troop.
- Closer monitoring of the female goats that suffer more than one miscarriage to move them elsewhere when necessary.
- More frequent meetings to be held throughout the organization to discuss, in detail, the distribution method so no one is skipped accidentally or feels they were skipped.
Although the itnernal work was a lot, the goats continued to produce. There were 16 goats that were born between last month and this month. The original troop now has 216 kids born from the inception of the project. So far, 172 have been distributed to 120 of AFVF's members. Even the kids have given birth! 48 of the once baby goats already gave birth to 73 kids of their own, bringing the total throughout the organization to 350 goats!
In addition to their flourishing goat project, these women have also begun filling bags to prepare their seedlings for the reforestation aspect of their project.
It's working! Let's keep going!
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Oct 14, 2020
Goats: a huge part of the Solution!
By Katiana Anglade | Project Leader
The women and community members in the village of Gros Mornes welcomed 180 baby goats into this world as of this past summer. These kids came from the first set mothers that were initially distributed at the project's inception. 110 of those babies have already been weaned and placed in their new homes. By the end of fall, 46 others will follow suit.
Your support has made this project so successful that there will actually be a second round of distribution once every member has received a goat. This allows for our partners to gain more economic stability as their goats reproduce; they can sell them and bring in other forms of income.
That's not all! The members continue to give their support and energy towards the project as they assist with the upkeep of the pens. They also bring food to feed the mothers regularly especially when the lack of rain causes scarcity. They have gone as far as purchasing pastures for blocks of time to ensure that the goats do not die of hunger.
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