Feeding Programs - Transforming lives by feeding the hungry. CCH supports several orphanages and schools, all of which provide nutritious meals for the malnourished and hungry.
School support: Only $40 a year provides a hot lunch 5 days a week for 1 student; $125 provides 125 meals for hungry schoolchildren and families.
Orphans support: Just $30/month or $360/year will feed an orphan.
Agriculture - The ultimate goal is to get families off the feeding program and into self-sufficiency. CCH's school garden program provides agriculture training for students in grades 3-6 who learn to grow vegetables that support the lunch program. Skills learned by the students are transferred to parents who desperately want to raise their own ability to feed their families. Much of Haiti's agriculture knowledge has been lost, so CCH helps families double and triple their harvests by implementing seed banks, tool banks and sustainable organic practices...even water sources, when needed.
Animal Projects - By sending a pregnant pig or goat to a rural Haitian family, you offer a starting point for increasing income. Cost for each: Goats - $85; Pigs - $135.
The Rural Renewal Project – Transforming lives by helping Haitians work together to achieve the goals they set. Based on Biblical principles of “teaching a man to fish,” the Rural Renewal Project provides a hand out of the cycle of poverty and into the cycle of opportunity in public health, clean water, economic development, agriculture, micro-credit and community development. Project work involves organizing a community to begin to meet basic human needs, such as learning to grow vegetables to reduce malnutrition, training a community health worker to serve a community, gaining experience in animal husbandry, or starting small businesses with access to micro-credit loans to increase families' incomes. Completely Haitain-driven, the Rural Renewal Project focuses on smaller, community-run, flexible interventions, specifically targeted to each rural villages’ needs. Currently, CCH is building the capacity of villages in the poorest sections of the southeast and north Departments.
Basic Principles
- Strengthens the inherent dignity, ingenuity and determination of the Haitian people;
- Builds on Haitians' capacity to work together to achieve common goals for improving their communities;
- Operates under the principle that interdependency and independency work together;
- Provides an assessment mechanism for pinpointing where rural communities are on the "ladder" of development and where they want to be in the future;
- Uses the successful Ivwa Pilot Project model by World Neighbors of Haitians, building the capacity of other Haitians;
- Provides a framework for Haitian communities to involve other local and outside organizations to accomplish their goals;
- Provides Haitian communities with access to “best practices” through a network of partner organizations who can assist in training in and implementing sustainable projects in their area of expertise.
For more information, contact Agriculture/Economic Development In-Country Director, Rubinste ST Louis (rubinste@cchaiti.org), or Rural Renewal Advisor, Scott Lance (scott@cchaiti.org).