Haiti Reconstruction

Rebuilding Haiti must start from the ground up, with agricultural education

HRI: Dedicated to fòmasyon of Haitians to run sustainable businesses that conserve resources, improve food security and health.

This Month's Featured Members

Elice Oreste;  University graduate student living in Port-au-Prince from LaBiche.   HRI's man on the ground who keeps our projects alive in Haiti.

Elice is an industrial engineer, speaks English and knows our programs on agricultural development and conservation.  As leader for Haiti Reconstruction Int'l, he may be available for hire as an interpreter for our projects in Haiti. Contact us at haitireconstruction@hotmail.com

A Haitian Civilian Conservation Corps must be established.

Photobucket We will seek Youth leaders who want to improve their county.

Laws must be enacted but civilians must understand they must protect their countryside if they want to survive.

We must find NGO's to sell locally grown agriculture products for school lunch programs to produce a healthy new generation of strong minds and grow their economy.

Home Grown School Feeding: a Framework to Link School Feeding with Local Agricultural Production

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Latest developments at HRI

Bonsante experts discover Vetiver an incredible plant they can use to make affordable soap.

We know vetiver's capable of stopping erosion and cholera from spreading by keeping fecal matter behind hedgerows. Terraces created behind the hedgerows compost dirt with microorganisms that kill cholera in matter of hours keeping it from getting into more water supplies.

Watch this video for another reason to plant vetiver!

BonSante Venture! Revolutionizes Hygiene in Haiti from Tejas Sathe on Vimeo.

Haiti Reconstruction International combats land desertification with vetiver grass hedgerows.

Our programs lets farmers use their mountainside land. We teach them to restore soil fertility, produce more food, and conserve their land for their children's children!

Our Tlud stoves eliminate the need of charcoal so farmers will not need to cut down the trees!

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HRI: New Web pages

on Co-operatives that will improve Seed and Food Security by decreasing post harvest food loss by increasing food production and income by improving technologies for safe storage, holding produce for higher prices.  Most important is having a backup supply of seed for emergencies.

Watch more Videos to understand more about our program for helping Haiti.

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First youth group dedicated to conservation and food security through agriculture education to start in Gris Gris Haiti this week.  To change culture and farming practices we have to start with the youth and they can bring it home to their parents.

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HRI mission; promoting Vetiver Hedgerows finding great uses for its dried leaves!

We also built the most efficient cook stove in Haiti since this one also bakes bread!

HRI team just returned from Haiti with a very successful mission; installing the new technology institutional sized cook stoves capable of boiling 60 liter pots.  They demonstrated by cooking 70 lbs of rice and 30 pounds of dried beans with a sauce with onions garlic and sardines which fed over 250 people large helpings!

The excess heat also heats a large oven which holds 5- 18"x26" sheet pans to make bread. Ladies who previously heated with a campfire on 3 cooking stones could not believe how clean the stoves burned and everyone want to start a business selling stoves.

The health of those using the stoves will improve 100%. 

Our Tlud technology uses the energy but takes carbon out of the atmosphere leaving the carbon in the combustion chamber. This carbon we call biochar will be put back into the soil to grow more food. Taking carbon out of the atmosphere also reduces the greenhouse effect which should decrease severe weather.  Our goal is to eliminate the use of charcoal and cutting down mature trees, replacing dried vetiver grass leaves which will be compressed into pellets to sell at the markets for stove fuel.

HRI will continue promoting establishing more vetiver hedgerow and manage the soil and crops between the rows.

We also introduced them to composting toilets, starting a pilot program for families in rural mountain areas. We selected 6 families to use 5 gallon bucket toilet system. Our pilot program will be using established vetiver hedgerows that will keep humanure in place while thermophilically eradicate pathogens.  They will be lining live hedgerows with dry vetiver grass, piling deposit behind it then covering more dry grass around and over composting humanure. This dry vetiver will be our dry carbon content that will keep flies and smells away and as more deposits are made it will be composting into more fertilizer. After a year of curing the compost it will be safe for gardens.  Once this group of 6 have perfected the program we will give it to the entire community and share it with the nation. Click this ling to see what we are working at Family%20composting%20toilet%20Pilot%20program.docx

The biochar from stoves will be put into buckets that will be used for latrines for urine. The carbon eliminates the smell until it is completely saturated. This inoculated biochar will be added to the cured soil. Microorganisms will quickly find a home in the biochar and this dirt will soon turn into terra-preta the best soil on earth to produce more food.

In the terraces safely protected by the hedgerows Adding biochar from the stoves to the fertilizer made from humanure will produce terra pretta, the best soil in the world to produce more food.

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Teaching EM technology in schools

This should be happening in Haiti : http://www.flickr.com/photos/67022082@N07/6102238089

Does anyone know if Mains Unis have started their program in schools in Haiti?

Posted by Jean-Luc Giraud on December 9, 2012 at 12:46am

EM Fears.

Just wanted to clear up a fear about EM that a lot of naturalists have and was again expressed by Alan.



EMRO does try to produce EM with local bacteria, in Haiti's case, it's Dominican Republic but you will be hard pressed to find the synergy of those three bacterium without pathogenic intrusions from the mulch already present in the forest around you, since there is very little pristine forests where the pathogens have not been unearthed and then, I ask you, why are you still…

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Posted by Jean-Luc Giraud on December 2, 2012 at 2:32am

Haiti should learn some lessons from what is happening in Japan...

How is knowledge about EM(Effective Microorganisms) uses and benefits progressing in Haiti? I haven't heard much, and wanted to stir the pot with this bit of Humble Pie ingredient :

http://www.emrojapan.com/monthly-message/content/526.html

Haiti needs me there to teach the ways and benefits of EM

Posted by Jean-Luc Giraud on November 29, 2012 at 12:52pm

New Music School Program - BAINET

I am a new nonprofit looking for people who share my passion for see the Haitians be able to have musical instruments and learn to play.  I am focused on starting programs in more remote villages.  Class/program size from 10-25 students.

All sorts of musical instruments are possible - depending on what the administrator of the school program is requesting.

I started my first music school program in May 2012 - in a remote village called L'Asile (6 hours from Port Au…

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Posted by MUSIC OF THE HEART, ORG on October 31, 2012 at 8:16am

SECURE, CLEAN, ACCESSIBLE WATER SOURCE + iNCREAED AGRICULTURE WELL OVER 50%

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We at Rain Catchers have a INNOVATIVE, cost effective, Micro Rain Water Harvesting Containment and Sanitation System.…
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Posted by Rick Walker on July 28, 2012 at 6:16am — 1 Comment

suggestion on Haiti reconstruction Answers and question!!!!!!!!!

Suggestion on Haiti’s reconstruction

All questions and answers are beautiful too; in Haiti more precisely here in the island of Gonave we face a major difficulty for water. we like very strong argument that the form on the internet about the compost toilet, each country, depending upon its geographical position requires a handful of experience and live the reality of the day. Most organizations who come to work in Haiti ride their projects without consulting farmers of the…

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Posted by Michel Samuel on June 6, 2012 at 9:44am — 2 Comments

 
 
 

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"Je suis un jeune entrepreneur, habitant en Haiti qui a besoin d'apprendre sure le vetivert et le moringa, je suis un fermier qui eleve des poules de chair dans la plaine du cul de sac, et je cherche des activites connex a l'elevage pour…"
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Mike Mahowald left a comment for John Fortman
"Hi John, How was your recent trip to Haiti?  Many times flying I meet interesting people who want to be part of Haiti Reconstruction but most times like the madam we spoke to that day in 2010 return and forget about what they wanted to do. I…"
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"Sorry Jean, I just realized that that link is outdated and I will try to update it ASAP."
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"Hallo Juliet, I am sure these webpages will also help you where you live as they pertain to all environments, especially when cooking without electricity or LPG gas stoves. I hope you do want to get involved!  Tell us more of what you’re…"
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"Hi Richard, How strange. Are you related to Richard Higgins here promoting toilet composting? Where have you been? Hope all is well."
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"I have just returned from Haiti. The school I was working with has a new chicken operation. Corn in the feed is making the cost prohibitive. I am looking into other feed substitutes to help reduce the cost of feed. I appreciate these alternative…"
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Mike Mahowald created this Ning Network.

Mike lives in Minnesota and has been leading Risen Savior missions to Haiti since 1998.  

Organized medical missions in the Gris Gris mountain area  north of Cotes de Fer. He has helped put in water wells, generators, built school, poor home developed ag projects & more.

He now concentrates on erosion, conservation & agricultural finding the best projects that can help our brothers and sisters in Haiti. 

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