Air, Fire, Earth and Water
- Water – Develop and improve access to water
- Air – Internet and mass communication for mass education for our mountain school
- Fire - Bring alternative energy technologies - solar panels and windmills – for the water project and then some
- Earth –
enhance the project's model garden, improving soil, testing out the Jatropha plant, develop irrigation!
Our Purpose
Our purpose is working with the rural Haitian Zoranje farming community:
- To bring new technologies to be adapted and adopted
- To create viable light industries that provide paid work, and
support the community in other ways
- To enhance small subsistence farm yields
- To bring visitors to learn from, and
with, our Haitian community
For
the people, a concern has been the flight of young people to the teeming
city;
given the eroding landscape and increasingly inadequate resources (food,
water,
education), there is little alternative but exodus.
The
collapse of the capital on Jan. 12 provokes a re-thinking of Haiti's
rural potential.
Targets we want to meet
- By July 2010 - Hold community meetings to plan new jaden
- By August 2010 - Secure land below 1200 feet for new jaden
- By August 2010 - Improve access to water at 2 sites- in progress
- By August 2010 - Plant corn and beans in former jaden at 3500 feet
- By September 2010 - DONE ! Have new latrine for school. TO DO: tables and chairs for 600 primary students
How our community will gain
- Our community will have paid jobs implementing our projects
- Our community will have attractive resources (water for bathing, improved school house and facilities, internet access) to keep youth in our hills
- Our community will consider experimenting with a new cash crop
- Our men and women will have more time to devote to literacy classes
- Our men and women will have more time to learn new skills (sewing, crafts)
- Our community will improve its agricultural yield by deploying compost, manures and better techniques
Objectives
If Pigs Could Fly and the Zoranje residents will:
- Provide rural Haitians with opportunities to interact with city dwellers, Haitians from the Diaspora, Americans and visitors from other world nations.
- Establish shared work projects, with rural Haitians at the helm.
- Devise project-based education curricula for visitors to work together with Haitian teachers, school principals and children, embedding algorithms and science concepts in practical, real-life settings, gardens and fields.
Measurable Objectives
- Functioning latrine for school and church will be completed by residents - DONE
- Functioning water pump and wash area for school and sport field will be built and maintained by residents - in progress
- Model gardens for: fruit trees and irrigated vegetables will be maintained by Zoranje youth and GEZ peasant association
- Experimental garden for jatropha plant will be maintained by Zoranje zone youth and GEZ peasant association
Deliverables
Pigs do fly and deliver: laptops, cellphones and interested persons to our zone. IN PROGRESS
Project Constraints
You name it: History, hurricanes, earthquakes, Delhi-belly, wind, drought and
pestilence fire and brimstone.
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