Make your tax-deductible donation for 2009 to Project Medishare today

By Jennifer Browning
The end of the year is near, but there is still time to make your tax-deductible donation of $25, $50, $100 or more to Project Medishare. This has been another successful year for Project Medishare and those we serve in Haiti’s Central Plateau. We have been thankful that mother nature gave some reprieve [...]

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UN food chief commits to 24-hour hunger strike to draw attention to the 1 billion chronically malnourished

By Jennifer Browning
Because Rome’s U.N. Food and Agriculture offices are unheated at night, U.N. Food Chief Jacques Diouf bundled up with a hat, scarf and overcoat over his pajamas and spent the night on a makeshift mattress in an effort to draw attention to the 1 billion chronically malnourished people before next week’s U.N. food [...]

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“Sweet seeds” sowing for good in the social gaming world

By Jennifer Browning
If you’ve been tending to your crops in Farmville, think about purchasing some sweet potato seeds in an effort to feed children in Haiti.
Under Zynga’s “Sweed Seeds” initiative, when Farmville users purchase special sweet potato seeds,  50 percent of profits are donated to non-profit organizations in Haiti.  Those being FATEM.org and FONKOZE.org.  FATEM [...]

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Innovative seed replacement program helps farmers in Haiti

By Jennifer Browning
The International Fund for Agricultural Development and the Food and Agriculture Organization have combined efforts in a $10.2 million effort to distribute and multiply quality seeds in Haiti in order to significantly increased food production, making cheaper food accessible and boosting farmers’ incomes, according to Sylvie Wabbes, a senior emergency operations officer with [...]

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$5 million grant signed to support Haiti’s Agriculture

By Jennifer Browning
In an effort to strengthen Haiti’s agriculture and support its sustainable development the World Bank Country Director for the Caribbean and the Haitian Ambassador to the U.S. have signed a $5 million grant.
World Bank Country Director for the Caribbean Yvonne Tsikata said with the grant the World Bank hopes to support the Ministry [...]

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Preparing the land

Local farmers in Thomonde, Haiti work in a Project Medishare trial field. This is the second trial field in the area. The first field agronomists are testing corn, soy beans, peppers, and a variety of grains. This field includes mango trees and peanuts. Project Medishare hires local farmers to help plant and manage the trial [...]

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