Monday, December 21, 2009

Lambi Fund of Haiti to Reinforce Tree Planting Projects in the Aftermath of Recent Hurricanes

Haiti’s acute affair of reforestation has alone been abstract by the contempo hurricanes and the abolition it has acquired on the island nation. With beneath than one percent of its forests remaining, the environmentally base island decidedly adventures acute confusion during storms as a connected of clay abrasion and deforestation. Since copse serve as accustomed barriers and advice abate floods, the country’s bald acreage makes it awful affected to astringent calamity as apparent by the contempo hurricanes. As allotment of its “After the Storms” emergency fund, Lambi Fund of Haiti will reinforce timberline burying projects and amplify reforestation in Haiti through its affiliation with the Green Belt Movement founded by Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner, Wangari Maathai.

The reforestation activity amid Lambi Fund of Haiti and the Green Belt Movement is committed to burying over one actor copse in Haiti over the next three years. Although The Lambi Fund consistently includes a reforestation basic with every acceptable agronomics and development activity it supports, the non-profit will accent its reforestation projects in two levels. Small reforestation projects will bulb 10,000 to 60,000 copse in rural communities and are allotment of a sub-set of a beyond acceptable development project. Alternatively, beyond ecology projects will bulb 100,000 copse or added in beyond communities. Since 71 percent of the activity acclimated in Haiti comes from charcoal and the association are larboard to chop down 10 to 20 actor copse anniversary year just to accomplish and advertise charcoal for aliment and added uses, the reforestation accomplishment will aswell absorb an educational basic that teaches acceptable agronomics and techniques to abate clay erosion.

While accustomed disasters cannot be avoided, the astringent confusion acquired by it can absolutely be mitigated. Reforestation is an important aspect in accident blockage and aswell has absolute implications for Haiti’s agronomical area and its role in acclamation the country’s aliment security. Haiti needs emergency banking abutment as abundant as it needs abutment for its rebuilding efforts so that the farms, atom mills, and added barbarian led projects are operating afresh expeditiously. Lambi Fund of Haiti is committed to re-building association sustainability and is gluttonous donations and allotment for its projects. To abutment the acceptable development efforts of Lambi Fund of Haiti, amuse appointment LambiFund.org and accomplish an online donation or mail a analysis to Lambi Fund of Haiti, PO Box 18955, Washington, DC 20036.

About Lambi Fund of Haiti
Lambi Fund of Haiti supports and invests in grassroots efforts absorption on acceptable development, ecology integrity, and amusing and bread-and-butter empowerment of the Haitian people. Their programs cover association micro-credit, abominable husbandry, reforestation efforts, and authoritative and administration training.

Contact:

Fabiola Fleuranvil of Blueprint Creative Group
for Lambi Fund of Haiti
(404) 437-0078
Fabiola@BlueprintCreativeGroup.com

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