New Generation of Lavanneau (NGL)

Nouvelle Génération de Lavanneau(NGL)

Title of the project: let’s help the people with the banana plantation
Submitted by: New Generation of Lavanneau (NGL)

Address: # 25, Lavanneau, Jacmel, southeast Haiti

Email: newgenerationoflavanneau@gmail.com
Total budget:
Support requested:
Duration:

Name of the organization: New Generation of Lavanneau (NGL)

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Project proposition
Unity NGL
Date of submit February 2019

Title of the project let’s help the people with the banana plantation

Target area Department southeast

Commune: Jacmel
Section communal: Lavanneau
Project cost 8281.53 USD

Duration of the project 5 years with rent of the land renewable

Type of the project
Sanitization
Job creation
Parents training
Assistance for the young
Literacy
Monitoring and evaluation
Support to the rule of law
Educational support
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Project plan
I- GENERAL PRESENTATION
 Histories and Generalities
 Applicant organization
 Context and justification
 Presentation of the area
II- LOGIC OF INTERVENTION
 General objective
 Specific objective
 Expected results
 Activities
 Chronogram of activities
 Modality of implementation
 Target Public
III- ASSISTANCE REQUESTED AND BUDGET
 Resources available
 Assistance requested
 Budget
IV- MONITORING, RAPPORTS AND EVALUATION
 Project monitoring
 Rapports
 Evaluation
 Conclusion
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I- General presentation
 Histories and Generalities
Generally Haiti is country that is considered like a poor one. But when we take into
account what the country possess as resources we could say that we are a rich one. The reason
why we are like that is because we do not really work on our local product to produce more so
that the country can feed himself and it does not need to wait for the help of the others country.
In order words, if we invest in the agricultural field that can help decrease and improve the
situation of the population. By that, we will have natural food to eat, and more business, we will
be able to export also what we have as local product to the international market. We have mango,
banana, and others things that could help us with this economic problem that the country is
facing because we do not produce anything and we are waiting from the international. A good
country must count on what it has as production not what they bring in to it. Haiti was a country
that used to export many good things like coffee, mango, banana, sugar cane. But with the
exodus rural, we do not produce anything anymore; everyone goes to the town and leaves the
mountain to plaint some products. And moreover, the state does not accompany our planters.
When we are looking at the situation, as young we are the future of the country. So, it’s for that,
we decide to act to see how we can contribute to solve the economic problem and see how we
can send more people to school with the plantation of the banana. We would like every year,
with what we income from the banana plantation to pay the school for twenty kids, and give 5
planters job and make business with twenty sellers.

 Applicant organization
NEW GENERATION OF LAVANNEAU/NOUVELLE GENERATION DE
LAVANNEAU (NGL). It is an organization that has been set up since May 2018, to help the
most vulnerable people, especially elderlies, young and children. It is headed by a committee of
7 members. Its headquarters are at # 25, Lavanneau Jacmel Haiti. It has 20 members.
Here is the name of the committee members:
1- Coordinator: Jerry JEAN
2- Assistant coordinator: Marcel PERRIN
3- Secretary: Stevenson PIERRE-SAINT
4- Assistant secretary: Marie-Danielle ROMSAINT
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5- Treasurer: Martelie JOISSAINT

6- Delegate: Cassandra LABBE
7- Assistant delegate: Valex LARRIVAUD
8- Councilor: Dr. Roosevelt JOSEPH
9- Responsible for public relations : Berthony Jean

 Context and justification

NEW GENERATION OF LAVANNEAU, Daily we are deeply touched by the critical
situation of our community to see what we can do to act on the problems to find a solution. We
are all as Haitian concern by Haiti’s situation. It is the reason why every little thing that we do
can mean a lot. Among the urgent problems that the community of Lavanneau is facing, we
have: alimentary problems (the population does not find and cannot afford feeding himself),
educational problems (there are not enough good school for the children, and sometimes parents
cannot afford sending his child to school), and sanitary problems (insufficient medical stuff for
taking care of: baby, pregnant women, olds etc.). Therefore, we cannot stay indifferent towards
our brothers and sisters who are suffering. For this, we would like to act on a problem that’s
really crucial, the agricultural problem by: developing and plant banana culture on about 1,293
hectares of land. If we arrive to grow two thousand bananas plant that will improve many things:
1- That will help us sending to school every year minimally about twenty (20) kids.
2- That will help us giving about 20 sellers a little business1.
3- That will help with the mass starvation, for we will help the area with this local product.
4- That will act on the health of the population, for the majority of our brothers and sisters
consumes rise daily. So they will find the bananas available on the market.
5- Generally that will help the country with the rural exodus and progressively decrease the
poverty in this area. For, we will be able to give five (5) planters job.

 Presentation of the area

Lavanneau is a communal section located in the town of Jacmel in the Southeast

department. It has many small places called “habitation”: we have Bassin Bleu, Cité lumiere,

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We are going to sign a contract with them, so that they can sell the bananas and they will find benefits.
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Dessource, Saint Antoine, Savanette, Benjamin, Gabriel Source, Desmarattes, Decamp, Locadi,
Grand Fond, Bodwen, Saint Ange, Saint Antoine and Delbo. Its area is 49 km2. It is bounded on
the west by the left river, to the North East by the Mountain then to the South East by the
Lavallee de Jacmel. According to IHSI4, the population is 15,000. It is run by a council of the
communal section (CASEC) with three members. The head office of this council is in the
Minutieux building at Carrefour Penguin. According to a report published in the year 2016 by
IHSI, there are 1000 families living in this locality, 1000 young people who are school age, and
10500 illiterate. There are 3 primary schools, 2 secondary schools and there is no high school in
the area. It should be noted that this community also has resources that constitute its potential:
first, in terms of health, there is a health center located in Bassin Bleu, which serves a large
portion of the population. Then, as regards to human resources, we have engineers, lawyers,
doctors, teachers, etc. in the area. Finally, in the field of education, we have schools such as:
National School of City Light, National School of St Angel, if we quote that. And we also have
an association of planters in the area.

II- LOGIC OF INTERVENTION

General objective
1- Contribute to the development of the national production.
2- Improve the life conditions of the population for decreasing the poverty.
Specific objective
1- Grow 2000 bananas tree on 1,293 hectares of land in the community of Lavanneau
2- Send to school every year twenty (20) kids by paying for them the school and materials
from the garden income.
3- Support 20 bananas sellers by making business with them.
4- Give jobs to 5 planters
Expected result
 2000 bananas tree are cultivated
 20 kids go to school thanks the income of the garden.
 20 bananas sellers are supported.
 5 planters are hired.
Activities
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 Buy or rent the piece of land (1,293 hectares).

 Built a water reservoir for water storage for watering the garden.
 Dig water well or buy a hydraulic pump for finding the water.
 Purchase of the banana tree.
 Registration of the sellers and the planters.

CHRONOGRAM OF ACTIVITIES2

Activities Responsible Duration

st
Rent or Purchase of the Coordinated by Agronomist Jean 1 week of June
land Berthony
Fence the land 2nd and 3rd week of June
Preparation of the water 3rd week of June
storage
Registration of the planters 4th week of June
Purchase of the materials
(water pump, pickaxe, hoe,
etc.
Preparation of the land for Month of July
planting the banana tree.
Purchase of the banana tree Beginning of august
Making the garden Middle of august

 Modality of implementation

To implement the project, we organize a group that has different people: agronomist,
educator, peasants, sellers that is going to make everything get done easily. First of all, all that
concerns the garden the agronomist will settle everything and supervise how it is going on. For
the payment of the school, the educator will follow and take care of everything that is to say, to
seek the school for the child, their registration, the payment of the school, and how these children
are working at the school. And the peasants are there to help with the purchase of the banana, the
assistance of the banana growing up. Each people of this group will have to give a report every
each month on how everything is working.

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We plan to start in June but in reality the beginning date depends on when the project is financed
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 Target public

While we were thinking about the agricultural problem in the country and the situation of the
local products in our community that could help us resolve the starvation problem, as student in
agronomy, we decide to make that project that aims different categories of people:

1- The children who are unable to attend school cause of financial problem.
2- The planters to make them find some income monthly.
3- The banana sellers to make them finding opportunity to sell more bananas and make
business.

III- ASSISTANCE REQUESTED AND BUDJET

 Available resources

In the community of Lavanneau, we have resources mainly human being resources that
could help it to be developed: we have people who have been trained in many fields: like
education, medical, agricultural, etc. When it comes to material resources, we have basin blue
that could help the community moving forward; we have also some schools that have been built
by organizations, we have also an association of planters that gather together most of the
planters in the area, in the community that is there to help the planters with the plantation.
Sometimes, this is the fund that is missing to help realize a lot of big thing in the community.

 Assistance requested

One of the biggest problems of the country is, sometimes as young we have some
beautiful idea to help our area and we cannot find any hand from the state and the private sector
to put us on the way reaching our goal. We have this project that is evaluated to 8281.53 USD.
The community can let us find 617.14 USD and we solicit from you 7664.39 USD.

Budget
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Articles Description Unity Quantity Unity price USD Total cost USD Comm. Partic. Amount requested USD Total USD
Rent3 of the land Tile of land 1 2857.14 2857.14 - 2857.14 2857.14
Fence of the land Unity 1 364.28 364.28 200 164.28 364.28
5 Planters4 Month 50 147.05 1470.58 - 1470.58 1470.58
UNDER TOTAL 200 4492 4692
Preparation of the water storage
Iron ½ Unity 12 8.57 102.85 - 102.85 102.85
Iron 3/8 Unity 6 4.64 27.85 - 27.85 27.85
Iron ¼ Unity 8 1.42 11.42 - 11.42 11.42
Black sand Truck 2 17.85 35.71 - 35.71 35.71
White sand Truck 1 35.71 35.71 - 35.71 35.71
Block Unity 350 0.42 150 150 150
Wire Pound 25 0.78 19.64 - 19.64 19.64
Labor costs Unity 10 14.25 142.85 - 142.85 142.85
Cement Bag 40 7.85 314.28 - 314.28 314.28
UNDER TOTAL 840.31 840.31
Purchase of the materials
Pickaxe Unity 5 7.14 35.71 - 35.71 35.71
Hoe Unity 5 8 40 - 40 40
Plough Unity 5 6.42 32.14 - 32.14 32.14
Spade Unity 5 14.28 71.40 - 17.14 17.14
Recipient Dozen ½ dozen 2.85 17.14 17.14 - 17.14
Pipe for watering the garden Unity 1 571.42 571.42 - 571.42 571.42
UNDER TOTAL 17.14 696.41 713.55
Land Preparation for planting the banana tree.
Tractor Day 1 71.42 71.42 - 71.42 71.42
Fertilizer Sac 5 35.71 178.55 - 178.55 178.55
Purchase of the banana tree Unity 2000 0.35 714.28 - 714.28 714.28
Transportation of the banana tree Truck 10 107.14 1071.42 400 671.42 1071.42
UNDER TOTAL 400 1635.67 2035.67
TOTAL 617.14 7664.39 8281.53

3 We will have to rent the land every five years. If we could buy it, it would be better for us.
4 This money that is in the budget for the planters is for paying the planters for the 10 first month of working. After that, the garden will generate enough money to pay the planters.
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IV- MONITORING, REPPORTS AND EVALUATION

 Monitoring

The project is an agricultural project but that is going to help in the education field, the
economic problems, and create more food available for the population and decrease the
starvation. With the rapport that is going to be available every month, that will give an idea how
the project is going and what to do, what it deserves to work on so that everything can go easily.
For this, we will have a group that has an agronomist, an educator, a peasant and a seller to have
an eye on everything and a meeting will be held at the end of each month to discuss about the
project.

 Report

While the project is being executed, we will have different reports to give to those who
are supporting us in this project. We mean the yawner will be aware about how everything is
going. We have a report every month about how the garden is developing and how the sellers are
involving in the business. And annually, there will be a report about the school payment and the
work of these children that we have accompanied with the project.

 Evaluation

The project will be evaluated each month through the meeting that we are going to have
with the group that has the agronomist, the educator, the seller and the planter. And at the end of
the year, we will have a last evaluation about everything.

 Conclusion

In sum, our project that aims to help many people that is really in the needs like:
starvation, educations, jobs can help improving the situation of people in Lavanneau. As young
who are growing up there, we have the will and we organize ourselves to act on the problem,
sometimes the funds are missing and prevent us from eradicate some urgent problem in our area.
If you support us with that project is like you support education of 20 kids; you support 20 sellers
and give job to 5 planters. You can help us acting truly on the problem of the community.