Thriving farming and fishing communities are key to eradicating poverty, hunger, and malnutrition in Haiti.

We are a nonprofit, humanitarian development and disaster relief organization working in Haiti with men, women, and children of the farming and fishing communities.

WHAT WE DO

To reduce Haiti’s poverty and hunger while increasing food security, we work closely with local farming and fishing communities to jointly design and execute integrated economic development programs.

The aim is to reinforce and expand their capacities to produce more and better quality food, increase their income, and expand their markets while improving access to basic necessities and promoting women’s equity.

An integrated approach combines economic growth with environmental remediation and regeneration, the strengthening of the social fabric, and the adoption of technology to increase effectiveness.

We also respond to natural disasters by helping communities to recover.

OUR PURPOSE

Our purpose is to partner with, support, and invest in Haiti’s smallholder farming and artisanal fishing communities because they are the key to ending the country’s persistent poverty, hunger, and malnutrition.

Currently, food insecurity is on the rise. According to USAID, 4.5 million Haitians suffer from hunger or extreme hunger – that is nearly half of the total population. Providing food emergency distributions is a perennial palliative, but not a long-term sustainable solution.

A sustainable solution is to help farmers, fishermen, and women who work in the food supply chain by providing them with the support they need to do what they do best – produce healthy food, but in bigger quantities.

Imagine, if we could help 60% of Haitians who are food producers to grow or catch significantly more food to feed at least their communities, and in the process lift themselves and those around them out of poverty, then Haiti would cease to be the poorest country in this hemisphere.

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Agricultural Cooperatives
Jointly building five agricultural cooperatives farmers own, manage, and lead to grow a sustainable economy
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2,500 to 12,500+
Farmers and their family members directly benefit from the cooperatives
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20,000 Residents
Mitigating floods to protect 20,000 mountain residents
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Climate Change
Reducing effects of climate change by practicing reforestation and agroforestry
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Women's Equity
Promoting women’s equity to ensure social justice and build a more resilient economy
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Education
Supporting inclusive education; feeding school children; promoting civics to cultivate responsible citizenship and non-violence

Emergency Lunch School Program

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URGENT

Due to the disintegrating economy resulting from gang violence, we have established the Emergency School Lunch Program that provides children with their only wholesome meal of the day. We serve 300 meals per day or 48,600 meals per school year. One meal costs 85 cents.

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Photo of  the Emergency School Lunch Program at The P. Lumumba School, Haiti
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Location

EcoWorks began operating in Haiti in 2009, taking root in the Lake Azueï region. Located directly east of the capital, at the border with the Dominican Republic. This region comprises the plain of Cul-de-Sac, the country’s largest lake, Azueï, and Haiti’s highest mountain range of La Selle, whose main peak is over 8,000 feet.

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Located directly east of the capital, at the border with the Dominican Republic
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Our Location
Ganthier, Thomazeau, Fond Verrettes, and Cornillon delineate the geographical scope of our Talia Farms Program and they have a total population of 120,000.

The context of working in Haiti today

Haiti is experiencing an unprecedented period of violence and disarray.  

The latest developments include a constitutional crisis: a non-functional senate, an unelected government that many consider illegitimate, a lack of governance, the assassination of a sitting president, and gangs that have taken over the capital, the supply chains, and all roads leading out of the city. They use kidnapping for ransom, rape, and murder, and attack other gangs for territorial control; hundreds have died.

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The Haitian Family
Jointly we build assets Haitian farmers own.
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47,500+
2,500 to 12,500 individuals organizing themselves intocooperatives

Talia Farms – The Core Development Program

Based on farmers’ input, we launched the Talia Farms Program, an integrated development initiative – based on EWI-farmers partnerships – for the Lake Azueï region. The purpose is to boost the local economy and reinforce it through environmental, social, and disaster relief programs to make it inclusive, integrated, and sustainable.

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The aim is to effectively address the deeply entrenched rural poverty by transferring knowledge, know-how, and resources to smallholder farming families who can drive the change towards regional economic growth.

Talia Farms – The Core Development Program

Based on farmers’ input, we launched the Talia Farms Program, an integrated development initiative – based on EWI-farmers partnerships – for the Lake Azueï region. The purpose is to boost the local economy and reinforce it through environmental, social, and disaster relief programs to make it inclusive, integrated, and sustainable.

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Key Talia Farms’ Priorities:

1. Enable to Organize

Enable smallholder farmers to organize themselves into five regional agricultural cooperatives they own and control to increase their yields and diversify their crops, improve their income and standard of living, connect them to markets, seek funding, as feasible protect them against loss and market fluctuations, and gain a powerful voice in matters vital to their well-being.

2. Education

Support education and literacy, culture, women’s equity, and youth integration and retention and working towards the day when all girls, boys, women and men in all nations across the world have finished secondary school and are educated and literate.

3. Flood Mitigation

Implement flood mitigation and topsoil regeneration to protect at-risk populations and fields, and to increase yields and quality of their crops; start the agroforestry component to provide additional environmental security, improve topsoil quality, and repair parts of the local ecology.

4. Agricultural Production

Establish a regional agricultural production hub to expand the domestic market, and open a food transformation center to manufacture products for export.

The aim is to effectively address the deeply entrenched rural poverty by transferring knowledge, know-how, and resources to smallholder farming families who can drive the change towards regional economic growth.

EWI COOPERATIVES

About Cooperatives

Cooperatives enable smallholder farmers to remain independent producers, one of their most important, non-negotiable conditions.  At the same time, members of the cooperative can decide to aggregate their agricultural production to attract bigger buyers who buy higher quantities and order more regularly, enabling farmers to plan better and become more efficient.

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Our Cooperatives

COOPERATIVE # 1 – CAMA

Upon bringing up the cooperative as a possible solution to Marre-Roseau farmers’ expressed needs and aspirations, they stated that they had never heard of a cooperative. Just eighteen months later, they owned one.

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Cooperatives' Training and Projects

TRAINING

Training is at the heart of establishing a cooperative. It takes two to three years to train members and their committees to assume the full responsibility for managing a cooperative. However, from the start, members are encouraged to take over certain responsibilities and propose projects they deem to be a priority.

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Our work is divided into 4 core building blocks:

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Economy:

Economic development

Economic development driven by smallholder farmers is key to eradicating poverty.

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Environment:

Remediation and stewardship
Establish environmental remediation and stewardship as an intrinsic part of agricultural production and economic growth...

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Social Protection:

The goal of this program is...

Is to strengthen the social fabric of participating communities by supporting education, healthcare, women’s equity...

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Disaster Relief:

2010 earthquake
Hurricanes
2021 earthquake Hurricane and flooding

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EWI Disaster Relief

THE EARTHQUAKE IN 2021
On August14th, 2021, Haiti was struck by a powerful 7.2 earthquake, devastating the southwestern peninsula. The latest information indicates: that 2,200 were dead, 12,000 were injured, and more than 300 were missing; close to 130,000 homes were destroyed or seriously damaged, and an estimated 700,000 people are homeless.

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Talia Farms Development PROGRAM

No one can more effectively and sustainably eliminate poverty than those who live in it. They know what they need, what they aspire to, and they are ready to do what is humanly possible to lift themselves out of this deeply entrenched and unjust situation they are forced to live in.  Talia Farms is designed to support and invest in them and their communities, and accompany them on their journey out of poverty and hunger, into wealth building and autonomy.

Our work is divided into 4 core building blocks:

Tree Reforestation - Donate X Webflow Template

Economy:

Economic development driven by smallholder farmers is key to eradicating poverty.

Care And Love - Donate X Webflow Template

Environment:

Remediation and stewardship
Establish environmental remediation and stewardship as an intrinsic part of agricultural production and economic growth...

River And Lake Cleaning - Donate X Webflow Template

Social:

The goal of this program is to strengthen the social fabric of participating communities by supporting education, healthcare, women’s equity...

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Disaster Relief:

2010 earthquake
Hurricanes
2021 earthquake Hurricane and flooding

Changing poverty at its roots

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Prime Minister MICHELE PIERRE-LOUIS

Michèle Pierre-Louis, former Prime Minister of Haiti (2008-2009); and the force behind transforming a huge swath of land into a magnificent public park, next to one of Haiti’s worst urban shantytowns, Martissant. Part of her intent was to also help revitalize this area.  She is the recipient of numerous awards for her exceptional work to improve lives in Haiti.

EWI organized a guided visit for the Prime  Minister to visit the region and some of our initiatives. She was impressed with the work done and expressed her concern about the inadequate local road system hampering farmers’ ability to deliver crops to markets. This is one of the reasons EWI is initiating a flood mitigation project to better protect local life, livelihoods and the main road leading to Marre-Roseau.

Testimonials

What are the local communities saying

"Nou te travay ak EWI pou twa dènye ane yo. Yo te ede nou etabli koperativ agrikòl, CAMA,  nou posede epi aprann kijan pou jere. Ansanm nou retabli wout nou ki te domaje anpil. Nou bezwen wout sa pou nou rive nan mache a pou nou vann rekòt nou an. Nou te konstwi kèk sistèm kolekte dlo lapli, epi nou espere bati yon sistèm pou bese inondasyon ki detwi wout nou chak sezon lapli. Nou bezwen tou yon klinik sante".

“ We have been working with EWI for the last three years. They helped us establish our agricultural cooperative, CAMA, we own and learn how to manage. Together we restored our seriously damaged road. We need that road to get to the market to sell our harvest. We built some rainwater collecting systems, and we hope to build a system to mitigate floods that destroy our road each rainy season.  We also need a health clinic”

Louisinis Louis
Leader of the CAMA agricultural cooperative of Marre-Roseau, and the region's CASSEC