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Lambi Fund for Haiti - 2010 Haiti Earthquake

Main/General Business Number: US: 202-833-3713
Website: http://www.lambifund.org/


Mission: from the website:

Mission

Founded jointly in 1994 by Haitians and Americans, the Lambi Fund of Haiti is a unique grassroots organization whose mission is to assist the popular, democratic movement in Haiti. Its goal is to help strengthen civil society in Haiti as a necessary foundation for democracy and development.

Constituency Involvement

The Lambi Fund of Haiti takes its lead from the peasant and women's organizations with which we collaborate. The Lambi Fund is based on the premise that the Haitian people understand how development is best achieved in their country. Therefore, the Lambi Fund follows the lead of grassroots organizations in program and priorities. The Lambi Fund never dictates to a community organization what should be done. Through discussion and reflection, the peasants decide what is best for their community and present the project to the Lambi Fund for support.

Program Areas

The Lambi Fund focuses its funding in five main project areas:

Sustainable Development — Sustainable agricultural projects help increase food security and income for peasant families. Many of these projects benefit women, who bear more of the burden in the agricultural economy.

Community Micro-credit — Members of a community organization band together to form collective micro-enterprise funds to provide one another with much needed capital to start self-sustaining community projects.

Animal Husbandry — In rural Haiti, wealth is measured in pigs and goats. For years, as conditions worsened in Haiti, the number of pigs and goats dwindled. Thanks to the self-sufficient projects run by grassroots groups, pig and goat breeding is again on the rise and contributing to the economic development of rural communities.

Environment — The conservation of Haiti’s waning natural resources is central to all Lambi Fund projects. Community cisterns and irrigation systems help communities secure safe and efficient water supplies while community reforestation projects curb deforestation – the most rapid in the Western Hemisphere.

Organizational and Leadership Training — Alongside our routine technical and management training programs, Lambi Fund provides organizational and leadership development training programs for peasant organizations and women’s associations.

Proven Outcomes

According to a recently conducted evaluation of our first ten years of work, studies showed that Lambi Fund projects involved 76,896 entrepreneurial participants whose collective enterprises impacted 1,222,145 Haitians! Researchers found well-documented evidence that Lambi Fund projects create change with: improved economic conditions, increased availability of food, reduced soil erosion, improved environment, increased availability of potable water, increased gender equity, improved democratic functioning, increased management capacity of organizations, and increased collaboration among grassroots organizations.


Areas Served: Haiti



This organization provides Temporary or Permanent Service? Temporary

Notes:

FROM THE SITE:

Lambi Fund of Haiti Earthquake Recovery

Lambi Fund of Haiti has conducted rural meetings with peasants from the 175 rural communities we have worked with over the past 16 years. In our usual bottom-up model, we are asking the peasants for their immediate needs and to prioritize rebuilding efforts. Asking the people what they need — what a concept!

As a result, Lambi Fund is implementing a four-phase plan to help cope with this mass exodus:

1.Food and emergency essentials to those migrating from Port-au-Prince to rural areas.
2.Repair damage in rural communities
3.Expand sustainable agriculture programs to meet the increased demand for food in rural areas
4.Increase opportunities for sustainable income for those displaced by the earthquake so that the influx of people migrating to countryside can start earning sustainable livelihoods
Specific details for rebuilding:

•Provide seeds, tools and equipment for peasant groups to plant more crops to feed local communities.
•Rebuild grain mills, sugar cane mills, and other economic development community enterprises lost in the earthquake. These buildings are the centers of communities-economic livelihoods.
•Recapitalize micro-credit funds run by peasant organizations so that people can replenish and continue their small businesses.
•Repair rainwater cisterns so people will have a supply of safe drinking water.
•Plant trees critically needed to stabilize topsoil and prevent mudslides
•Create strong partnerships with a coalition of like-minded groups working together to rebuild Haiti.
•Take a leadership role in advocacy for the voice of the people.

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Lambi Fund of Haiti
PO Box 18955
Washington DC 20036
(202)-833-3713

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