Let's Build Gonave, Haiti!

Let's Build Gonave Haiti is ending the year on a high note.  We have seen so many developments and have laid a good foundation to build on.  We have and will continue to support building up the local plant and tree population on the island of La Gonave.  Not only to support our current honeybee program, but future programs. We will look into rabbit rearing when we visit the island of La Gonave to see if this would be a viable industry.  We talked about Talipia farming, which is still something that we are interested in, however the lack of water is a major concern.  Finally we are hoping to put programs in that will allow for more sustainable farming, and ways to overcome issues with the poor soil. By this time next year we will talk about visiting the island next year and harvesting the honey.  Our hope is to start building a marketing campaign that will get locals involved and understand honey and beekeeping.  If our partner organization obtains...

Our goal is to allow families on La Gonave to have jobs by creating their own.  The best way is to be their own business people.  By doing small scale farming, they will ensure their own food needs, but also some income as well. Our hope is to have farming ideas that are not extremely labor intensive, so that one could also have a job at an employer.  We want the average income on La Gonave to eventually exceed that of the mainland.  We think having honeybee farms, Talipia farms, rabbit farms, and vetiver grass fields are easy but high income jobs.  Wouldn't it be great if tourism was big on the island?  One could work full-time in the service industry and part-time farming. This fish is easy to raise, and produces a large sum of fry.  Given that there is already a very large operation on the mainland, we have already been in talks of creating farms on La Gonave.  These fish will aid in the food distribution that is needed on the island, and...