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			<description><![CDATA[Ketlyne Augustin, 30, lives near the proposed garden area in Petite Savanne, where she hopes to get a small plot so she she can grow vegetables to sell to support herself and her daughter, now two months old. 
“I want to do it all. I want a garden to grow vegetables and then to go and sell them. I think it’s a good idea. Now when we need fruits and vegetables we need to go all the way down in to town to get them. 
“I want to succeed, to get the fruit of my labor, so I can sell it. I want to go earn money and put it back in to the garden to grow even more fruits and vegetables. I think this will be good for me and my daughter.”
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			<media:description><![CDATA[Ketlyne Augustin, 30, lives near the proposed garden area in Petite Savanne, where she hopes to get a small plot so she she can grow vegetables to sell to support herself and her daughter, now two months old. 
“I want to do it all. I want a garden to grow vegetables and then to go and sell them. I think it’s a good idea. Now when we need fruits and vegetables we need to go all the way down in to town to get them. 
“I want to succeed, to get the fruit of my labor, so I can sell it. I want to go earn money and put it back in to the garden to grow even more fruits and vegetables. I think this will be good for me and my daughter.”
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			<description><![CDATA[The proposed project will gather rainwater in reservoirs and use it to irrigate the gardens.
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			<media:description><![CDATA[The proposed project will gather rainwater in reservoirs and use it to irrigate the gardens.
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			<description><![CDATA[Agronomist Eddie Cherubin, 27, works for COZPAM, Oxfam's partner in Carrefour Feuilles. He says this hillside in Petite Savanne can be an acceptable site for a nursery if they enrich the soil with compost and take measures to control erosion during heavy rains.
“There are techniques we can use to make this place work as a nursery. They include terracing, as a means to conserve the land and control erosion. We can use compost to enrich the soil. The amount of water that will come here during the rainy season will be challenging, but if we terrace it we can control that. We can install hay barriers to limit the flow of water coming off of here.”
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			<media:description><![CDATA[Agronomist Eddie Cherubin, 27, works for COZPAM, Oxfam's partner in Carrefour Feuilles. He says this hillside in Petite Savanne can be an acceptable site for a nursery if they enrich the soil with compost and take measures to control erosion during heavy rains.
“There are techniques we can use to make this place work as a nursery. They include terracing, as a means to conserve the land and control erosion. We can use compost to enrich the soil. The amount of water that will come here during the rainy season will be challenging, but if we terrace it we can control that. We can install hay barriers to limit the flow of water coming off of here.”
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			<title><![CDATA[46448]]></title>
			<description><![CDATA[The Savanne Pistache market near Petite Savanne is a suitable place for project participants to sell the produce they grow. It is not far from the proposed garden and nursery site in that district.
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			<media:description><![CDATA[The Savanne Pistache market near Petite Savanne is a suitable place for project participants to sell the produce they grow. It is not far from the proposed garden and nursery site in that district.
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			<description><![CDATA[A woman carries produce she grew in the hills above Port-au-Prince down to the city to sell.
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			<media:description><![CDATA[A woman carries produce she grew in the hills above Port-au-Prince down to the city to sell.
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			<description><![CDATA[Project participants intend to use discarded tires to plant fruits and vegetables.
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			<media:description><![CDATA[Project participants intend to use discarded tires to plant fruits and vegetables.
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			<description><![CDATA[Oxfam's partner COZPAM hopes to establish a nursery at this garden site, which has been lying unused since the devastating 2010 earthquake, in the St. Jude district of Carrefour Feuilles.
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			<media:description><![CDATA[Oxfam's partner COZPAM hopes to establish a nursery at this garden site, which has been lying unused since the devastating 2010 earthquake, in the St. Jude district of Carrefour Feuilles.
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			<description><![CDATA[Thomas Julien 41, is married with two small boys (one is going to school, other is still to young). He lives in the district of Massaly, where COZPAM has a former nursery area that has not been operating since the earthquake. He is formerly a mechanic, and later got involved in the garden project when it was operating at this site.
Thomas is an experienced vegetable gardener. He says "Anything you grow you would not have to buy, and if you grow a large quantity, you can sell the produce."
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			<media:description><![CDATA[Thomas Julien 41, is married with two small boys (one is going to school, other is still to young). He lives in the district of Massaly, where COZPAM has a former nursery area that has not been operating since the earthquake. He is formerly a mechanic, and later got involved in the garden project when it was operating at this site.
Thomas is an experienced vegetable gardener. He says "Anything you grow you would not have to buy, and if you grow a large quantity, you can sell the produce."
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			<description><![CDATA[Jacques Jean Pierre works for Oxfam's partner COZPAM. "I' want to give every family here a tree to plant in their courtyard, and seeds to grow vegetables. I also want to see these same families become self sufficient, and more resilient, I don't want them to wait for us to start a project like this in this area." .

“There’s going to be a school here, so we also want to establish a garden. We’re taking a long-term view…before the earthquake we had a small nursery here so we want to expand on that idea now.
“The people here are in a difficult situation. They have to go in to town to find jobs. Women can grow things here and go down in to town to sell them, and many of the men stay here with no work, or they go to the quarry to break rocks, which is contributing to the environmental damage here.

“Oxfam and COZPAM talked with people about what they need, and we think the garden project would help get more vegetables into their diet along with the rice they are eating. One of the projects we did with Oxfam was to bring locally produced food to the schools, and this helped local people grow their own vegetables. We would like to help all the families in this area establish parcels of land to plant, so they can grow cabbage, carrots, spinach…in the past project whatever they had extra they shared with their neighbors – but they rarely had a surplus to sell. One of the things we saw was that when people did have a little extra money from growing their own food they could use it to buy more rice, a greater quantity, so it lasted longer. We know that if we can help people produce more food, this will help them have more money, and they can have greater income selling vegetables. 

“During the earthquake most of the homes were damaged here. After the earthquake only Oxfam came to help, no one else came here. All the emergency program here was in collaboration with Oxfam. This place was really badly affected.

“A guy like Thomas [Julien] can be earning money, but he is also learning a new skill. He’s always working with the agronomist, so we can send him to help in other areas. He’s also here to protect this patch of land, but he is also building the skills to help others do the same.

“I hope people can replant this whole area, produce their own vegetables, so they don’t have to spend so much money on food, and that this can be a good case study that shows we helped people spend a lot less money on vegetables.

“I want to look up here and see more trees, see all the reforestation. I want to give each family a tree to plant in their courtyard, and seeds to grow their own vegetables. I want to see these families to be self-sufficient, resilient, and that in the future, that they don’t wait for us to start a project in this area.”
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			<media:description><![CDATA[Jacques Jean Pierre works for Oxfam's partner COZPAM. "I' want to give every family here a tree to plant in their courtyard, and seeds to grow vegetables. I also want to see these same families become self sufficient, and more resilient, I don't want them to wait for us to start a project like this in this area." .

“There’s going to be a school here, so we also want to establish a garden. We’re taking a long-term view…before the earthquake we had a small nursery here so we want to expand on that idea now.
“The people here are in a difficult situation. They have to go in to town to find jobs. Women can grow things here and go down in to town to sell them, and many of the men stay here with no work, or they go to the quarry to break rocks, which is contributing to the environmental damage here.

“Oxfam and COZPAM talked with people about what they need, and we think the garden project would help get more vegetables into their diet along with the rice they are eating. One of the projects we did with Oxfam was to bring locally produced food to the schools, and this helped local people grow their own vegetables. We would like to help all the families in this area establish parcels of land to plant, so they can grow cabbage, carrots, spinach…in the past project whatever they had extra they shared with their neighbors – but they rarely had a surplus to sell. One of the things we saw was that when people did have a little extra money from growing their own food they could use it to buy more rice, a greater quantity, so it lasted longer. We know that if we can help people produce more food, this will help them have more money, and they can have greater income selling vegetables. 

“During the earthquake most of the homes were damaged here. After the earthquake only Oxfam came to help, no one else came here. All the emergency program here was in collaboration with Oxfam. This place was really badly affected.

“A guy like Thomas [Julien] can be earning money, but he is also learning a new skill. He’s always working with the agronomist, so we can send him to help in other areas. He’s also here to protect this patch of land, but he is also building the skills to help others do the same.

“I hope people can replant this whole area, produce their own vegetables, so they don’t have to spend so much money on food, and that this can be a good case study that shows we helped people spend a lot less money on vegetables.

“I want to look up here and see more trees, see all the reforestation. I want to give each family a tree to plant in their courtyard, and seeds to grow their own vegetables. I want to see these families to be self-sufficient, resilient, and that in the future, that they don’t wait for us to start a project in this area.”
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			<description><![CDATA[Prospere Princivil, 51, lives in St. Jude and grows bananas and plantains his wife sells in town. He says he would like to be involved in a garden project because "there's no way I can buy seeds, and seedlings, so I can't grow much."

Prospere lives about a five-minute walk from the proposed nursery and also close to proposed garden areas. He has eight children between 4 and 25. His wife is a merchant, selling tomatoes, plantains, bananas. They used to participate in a garden project two years ago but since the earthquake they have not had any capital to invest in growing their own vegetables. While they still have some plantain trees, which produce two varieties, “…everything else she sells she has to buy down in town.” He's optimistic about the new garden project:
“It would be great for my wife. Carrots, aubergine, cabbage…she would not have to go all the way down to buy it. We would produce it here. I would be really happy if we could make this happen because I have been wondering if I could start growing again. 
“Some days we make 50 gourds, others not so much. But there’s almost always something coming in. 
“We eat once a day. There’s no possibility of three meals. The easiest to cook is rice and maize; access to vegetables is difficult if you don’t grow them.
“During the earthquake, the people next door lost their house…ours was not lost, but you can see the cracks. I was here, I was in front of the doorway and the kids were in the house. I could not understand what was happening, I had never experienced it before. It’s hard to talk about, we lost family and the house was damaged. 
“I’d like to see the garden, maybe it will help relieve some issues here.”]]></description>
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			<media:description><![CDATA[Prospere Princivil, 51, lives in St. Jude and grows bananas and plantains his wife sells in town. He says he would like to be involved in a garden project because "there's no way I can buy seeds, and seedlings, so I can't grow much."

Prospere lives about a five-minute walk from the proposed nursery and also close to proposed garden areas. He has eight children between 4 and 25. His wife is a merchant, selling tomatoes, plantains, bananas. They used to participate in a garden project two years ago but since the earthquake they have not had any capital to invest in growing their own vegetables. While they still have some plantain trees, which produce two varieties, “…everything else she sells she has to buy down in town.” He's optimistic about the new garden project:
“It would be great for my wife. Carrots, aubergine, cabbage…she would not have to go all the way down to buy it. We would produce it here. I would be really happy if we could make this happen because I have been wondering if I could start growing again. 
“Some days we make 50 gourds, others not so much. But there’s almost always something coming in. 
“We eat once a day. There’s no possibility of three meals. The easiest to cook is rice and maize; access to vegetables is difficult if you don’t grow them.
“During the earthquake, the people next door lost their house…ours was not lost, but you can see the cracks. I was here, I was in front of the doorway and the kids were in the house. I could not understand what was happening, I had never experienced it before. It’s hard to talk about, we lost family and the house was damaged. 
“I’d like to see the garden, maybe it will help relieve some issues here.”]]></media:description>
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