Donate an Ox: Help Improve Crop Productivity

It was a warm, sunny day in Les Cayes, Haiti. The city was bustling with activity – merchants hustling to sell their merchandise, moto taxis weaving in and out of traffic and school children with their cleanly pressed uniforms walking to and from school. Amidst this hustle and bustle, representatives from 14...

As the Lambi Fund of Haiti reported a few months back, while the heart of Hurricane Sandy did not hit Haiti, the storm brought days and days of persistent rain.  This significant rainfall caused severe flooding – causing widespread loss of crops and livestock. In response, Lambi Fund moved swiftly to respond to...

Typically, the Lambi Fund of Haiti uses these project updates and an opportunity to highlight progress on specific projects and how your support is working to move Haiti forward.   Setbacks in this type of work are inherent though and hardworking Haitians have been dealt a very harsh blow by Hurricane Sandy. As...

Lambi Fund is happy to report that the community organization OPBK is making great strides on their community ox-plow project.  The group successfully completed technical training on how to manage and operate an ox-plow service and has begun offering the service to members of the community.  Currently, members can...

Fostering practices that yield democratic functioning in Haiti is the overarching principle of the Lambi Fund of Haiti's mission. Each and every day, together with our partners, we assess events and situations created by policies or the lack thereof that weaken the capacity of our communities to strive to move forward. I...

Members of Lambi Fund’s staff recently returned from a site visit in Southern Haiti to visit the Ox-Plow Service project.  This was an incredibly exciting visit as members of  the Organization of Farmers from Besi and Klona (OPBK)  have recently began plowing fields with their newly minted ox-plow...

In October of 2011, the Lambi Fund of Haiti’s board and staff members planned to spend three days in Southern Haiti to visit grain mills, sheep farming and ox-plowing projects.  The plan was to stay in Les Cayes and travel daily to different project sites located in neighboring rural...

Members of the Organization of Farmers from Besi and Klona (OPKB) have received valuable training in numerous training sessions.  This includes: • A training that was provided for 25 members on animal selection, caring for the animals (veterinary agent and pharmacy), and animal feed. • A training was...

      Cholera, like most news in Haiti, made headlines and then was placed on the sidelines as other more "newsworthy" events were brought to the forefront. Since the fall of last year, Haiti has been battling this ugly epidemic and it has been particularly devastating in the countryside due a lack...

It has been over a year since the earthquake and community groups like the Organization of Farmers from Besi and Klona (OPBK) have been working hard to recover.  The ox-plow service has allowed farmers in the community to more effectively plant and harvest their crops.  Increasing food productivity was a...

Haitian Farmers Report: "The Lambi Fund Saves Lives!" In an effort to assess the lingering impact of the January 12, 2010 earthquake on Haiti's rural communities, the Lambi Fund of Haiti's team of staff and board members embarked on a fact finding journey which took them to the departments of the Artibonite and the...

Working towards food security is more important than ever following January’s earthquake in Haiti. Thanks to humble donations like yours, members of OPBK have purchased 4 oxen and plows and are in the middle phases of launching a community ox-plow service. Prior to owning the oxen, OPBK members had to rely on...

Thanks to your generous support rural families in Haiti are beginning to recover since January's earthquake. The use of oxen are proving invaluable as farmers have begun planting for the season. As oxen cultivate the land much quicker than the use of a hand-plow ever could, 100's of farmers are planting more and...