Haiti Trip — Spring 2008
These photos were taken during the Spring 2008 delegation to our partner organizations in Haiti.
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Haitians are learning how to successfully raise plantains at this training center. Funds are needed to finish the center.
Women members of ODEPERIB listen and participate in a lively discussion on gender equity.
A newly elected female officer of ODEPERIB.
Members from ODEPERIB grow seedlings in tree nursery and then transplant to deforested areas.
ODEPERIB members built rainwater cisterns throughout the community to provide safe drinking water.
Women sift grain prior to milling them at the grain mill run by APS.
This woman is filling the mill with grains to be milled into flour.
Most meetings begin with singing and a Lambi Fund Haiti Board Member Margo leads us in song.
These girls can go to school because they do not have to carry water long distances thanks to the nearby water source built by the community with Lambi Fund support.
Lambi Fund helps communities tap potable water sources such as this one.
We fell in love with the friendly residents of Bayone. Here is a photo of my friend Stanley (a sweetheart).
Delegates view nursery in the mountain village of Bayone
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An ox grazes while a Lambi Fund board member walks along the irrigation canal in Mapou Rollin.
APMR leaders discuss how they solved community issues with the construction of the irrigation canal.
Haiti Director Josette Perard and Field Director Ferry Pierre-Charles listen intently while APMR leaders discuss the irrigation project funded by Lambi.
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We had fun dancing to the rhythms of AWOZAM drummers.
The dancing of AWOZAM was amazing.
The children of Mapou Rollin enjoyed the concert too.
Lambi Fund Deputy Director Leonie Hermantin listens to the discussion at a peasants meeting.
The delegation gathered for a group shot at the Olaffson Hotel.
We also enjoyed the lively music of RAM at a concert at the Olaffson Hotel.
These girls go to school now that their families are living sustainably thanks to the Lambi Fund.
