Areas of Focus:
Economic & Community Development
Maternal & Child Health
Bonus: Positive Environmental Impact
Project Objectives:
Restore and expand breadfruit production in Jeremie region of Haiti that was devastated by Hurricane Matthew. This is the most impoverished region of the hemisphere's poorest country.
Create a local, solar-powered breadfruit processing facility
Provide vocational training to farmers, facility workers
Develop the domestic and export market for breadfruit products
Planned Activities:
Propagate and grow 5,000 breadfruit saplings
Provide ready-to-produce tress to small holder farmers and coop orchards
Fund processing equipment for new facility (building funded by cooperating NGO)
Provide packaged breadfruit breakfast meals to local schools
Provide vocational training to farmers and workers
Expected Outcomes:
Produce 2.5 - 5 million lbs. of breadfruit annually
Economic impact on region- US$470,000 - US$900,000 annually
Good jobs and businesses for local population in poorest region of Haiti
Provide nutritious meals to school children
Develop an export industry for Haiti
Cooperating Organizations:
Oganizasyon Zanmi Grandans (Haitian NGO)
Partners with Sassier (US based 501(c)(3) that supports Oganizasyon Zanmi Grandans
Trees that Feed (US NGO active in Caribbean counties)
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