Repair/restore food producing gardens in Haiti

 Organization Bon Samaritain (OBS) has 51 members who reside at proximity to irrigation canal that crosses a portion of the South for mile. The membership benefitted from the distribution of seed that constitute the second phase of our recovery response in The South. For this reason, by the end of December they seeded their first field of Beans and rekindle their planting. 

Unfortunately not all the vast south is irrigated. Those without irrigation canals waited on the rain that started in mid March to begin planting. Recovery is not at all an even process and with limited resources it is more challenging to the community at large.

OBS not only provided a mill for the transformation of grains to rice, corn meal, millet to its members but the community of farmers in its vicinity uses its service to produce food for local consumption. Hurricane Mathew left a wharp of metal and scattered gray bricks unrecognizable as the active mills with local voices rising above the grinding sound of active merchants waiting for their production. Now these farmers may have to walk upward of 6 hours to transform their grains. 
While we sat in an update dialogue with 37 of the members; a passerby hurled;
- "Ki jan nou ye la?"  ( how we are doing in these parts?)
people responded in Unison
- "nou pa pi mal." (we are not so bad.)
- "Ki le moulin an ap travay anko? (when will the mill be working again?)
 - "Nou poko konen"(we dont know yet.

The challenge of food production continues with the need to regenerate infrastructure that made a difference in the efficiency of the production and the timeliness of the work.  Food production remains a major challenge. Not only we had a four month drought after the hurricane, most mechanism of food production were affected and so a level of isolation has set in and people find themselves without the tools they need to bring production to the market.  From water to reconstruction of roads, we still have many challenges to meet.

Lambi Fund is engaged and committed to assist 21 organizations partners with infrastructure needs.  3 of them will be reconstruction mills for rice, corn and millet.  We need your help to continue so we can make it happen and bring those impacted closer to normalcy.  We are still recovering. Help us restore and rehabilitate to bring our partners to the new reality. 

Thank you for your generosity and your continued support.

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