Samuel, a SIFAT graduate from Haiti, has successfully led training and agricultural projects in four communities: projects 19-06, 20-04, 20-06, 21-06, 22-05, 23-05 and 24-01. |
Project Funded!Project: To improve the nutritional and economic life of 30 families and other community members in the Vallue community who have escaped violence in the capital city of Port-au-Prince, coming to the mountains to take refuge. Summary: When families escaping violence in Port-au-Prince arrive in the mountains, they come with nothing but the clothes on their backs. They are desperate to provide food and other needs for their families. Samuel’s ministry teaches women how to grow produce for family food and to sell the excess produce in the markets to provide for basic needs, as well as to have money to be able to send their children to school. The women are taught to grow sweet peppers, leeks, parsley, spinach, grenadine, oranges, papaya and bananas. As part of training and beneficial practices, they hold field experiments. Each participant is taught composting, ecology and techniques to protect mountainside fields from erosion. This project is the seventh in a series of successful projects to help women in a mountain communities learn to grow crops to provide food for their families and to gain profit to enable them to send their children to school. Samuel’s projects have successfully transformed more than 200 families from despair to having sufficient food and crops for sale. Project 24-03: Agriculture for Women #7
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