Help 500 Rural Haitian Families Fight Hunger
Help fight hunger Haiti
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Summary
"Feeding Families" is a sustainable farm project to help 500 families address hunger in Haiti through vegetable gardens, fruit tree plantings, and the breeding of goats, rabbits and chickens.
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Responding to the current food crisis in Haiti, this project will provide an on-going supply of locally grown food to 500 families in rural Haiti. Vegetable gardens, fruit trees, and livestock products will balance diets and help fight malnutrition. The project will provide hope and keep people from leaving their land for the slums of the larger cities in Haiti. This self-help project will serve as a model for farmers who struggle to survive with subsistance farming.
Activities
The project will provide start-up supplies and training for square foot gardens, fruit tree nurseries, and animal husbandry. MAKOUTI Agro Enterprises, a grassroots organization in Haiti, and the POA Farmer to Farmer Program will provide support.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $7,062
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $60,738
Total Funding Goal: $67,800
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
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Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
"Feeding Families" will enable 500 families to address hunger caused in part by soaring food costs, by producing locally the food they need for their own health and well-being, on a continuing and sustainble basis.
Project Message
In my 22 overseas assignments, this organization (MAKOUTI) is going to succeed. It is a grassroots effort in Haiti with minimal help from the outside, improving lives and helping their country
- John Malcheski, Volunteer in the Farmer to Farmer Program
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Peggy Carlson
Director, Farmer to Farmer Program
1424 K Street, NW
#700
Washington, DC 20005
United States
2026376230
Email:
Project Sponsor
Organization
Partners of the Americas
Partners of the Americas
1424 K St., NW, #700
Washington,
DC
20005
United States
202-628-3300
http://www.partners.net
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Where this Project is Located
Country
This project is located in 
Haiti
and can also be found under 
Economic Development.
For more information about Haiti, read the Human Development Report on Haiti or the Wikipedia entry for Haiti.
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on April 16, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on May 19, 2008
Latest Update from the Field
New photos from the Feeding Families project!
By Peggy Carlson - Program Director, April 16, 2009 01:20 PM
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