Friday, June 17, 2016

January 2016  Terre de Negra, Haiti

Terre de Negra is a small community located in the costal plain of northern Haiti.  This area is mostly desert and life here is very difficult.  A gentleman here constructed a shade house of sticks and palm fronds where he grew plants, carrying water to keep them alive.  This was our incentive to build a shade house to assist his efforts.




 




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January 2016  Atrel, Haiti

When Jaime and his crew arrived at the Baker family missionaries in Atrel, Haiti to build their shade house in January, they had a special request.   "Could you put screen on the ends to help control a particularly nasty moth."  The moth laid eggs that hatched into caterpillars that ate every green thing in site.  Jaime assured them that he could. Now that in itself is one of God's miracles. Two years ago we sent three rolls of high quality nylon screen to our storage depot in Haiti. This year we were quite sure that Jaime would not have enough poultry wire for two shade houses so we asked them to load two rolls of the nylon screen on the truck. As a result Jaime had exactly what he needed to fill the Baker's request. God prepared an answer for a problem two years before it was needed.  Isn't that just like the Lord?


Destructive moth



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Thursday, June 16, 2016

BUREAU OF NUTRITION AND DEVELOPMENT
November 2015 - January 2016

BND is a totally Haitian NGO dedicated to providing nutrition to school aged children and developing sustainable agriculture for local farmers in the area surrounding Maissade, Haiti.  The farmers are organized into 140 coops.

The "nutrition" part of the Bureau of Nutrition and Development includes providing school lunch and a breakfast snack for 165,000 children prepared from locally grown products. Here is a cake reinforced with honey and flavored with locally grown cinnamon and anise. The other is a cassava cake filled with peanut butter, sesame seed, and cane sugar. The milk is from the Brahma cows with cinnamon and cane sugar added. Yes that is pure cream on top





























 
 
The coops work in animal husbandry with cattle, goats, mules, and oxen. Ample vegetation and water in this area makes it possible to work with larger animals. We were surprised to see abundance of mules and not so many donkeys.




 
 Manioc and sugar cane are processed into manioc cakes and raw sugar or rabadou.
 




 
 
 
 Shade Houses at 4 sites
 




 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Mission Statement MISSION STATEMENT OF SFP As Christ’s ministers we dedicate ourselves to the Word of God and the teachings of Jesus Christ. We further dedicate ourselves to set a Godly example to those we serve through a Christian lifestyle, bear witness of what Christ has done in our lives, and share the Gospel message with the lost. We pledge ourselves to respect the work of other ministries, to lift them up in prayer, and to work with them for the furtherance of God’s Kingdom. We further pledge to be good stewards of the monies with which we are entrusted and to hold ourselves accountable to God and to those who contribute to this ministry. We seek no glory other than that of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and God the Father. Sustainable Food Production, SFP, is a Christian based organization dedicated to helping people help themselves by growing better gardens and healthier livestock. We are a small group of believers representing several church denominations and operating as a part of Global Compassion Ministries. Our goal is to introduce improved gardening techniques, provide quality seed, and improve goat and chicken production in order to strengthen families and promote food production independence. Our work includes but is not be limited to: Soil and water conservation Soil improvement Building plant beds for intensive gardening Building both large and family size shade type green houses Experimenting with new crops and improved varieties of current crops Animal husbandryIsaiah 58:10If you extend you soul to the hungryAnd satisfy the afflicted soul.Then your light shall dawn in darkness,And your darkness shall be as the noonday.