Heifer International has committed to help rebuild rural communities and to improve economic opportunities through livestock inputs and management in Haiti as part of the 2011 Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting. Founded by former President Bill Clinton in 2005, CGI brings world leaders from a variety of backgrounds together to create partnerships that provide innovative and measurable solutions to some of the world's most pressing challenges.
Heifer International's commitment, announced from the stage Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011, by Heifer President and CEO Pierre Ferrari, will target 20,250 vulnerable rural households. The project will increase rural incomes by using Heifer's proven approach to sustainable development, combining livestock and crop inputs for integrated farming, improved husbandry techniques, business training, community-building and enhanced social capital.
Specifically, REACH — Rural Entrepreneurs for Agricultural Cooperation in Haiti — will develop 150 breeding centers and provide training for 120 community health workers who, in turn, will train an average of 200 farmers each. Heifer International hopes the enterprise will serve as a model for the state to consider for replication, key to igniting the kind of transformation Haiti needs to become self-sustaining. Three hundred full-time jobs will be created and more than 83,000 will benefit indirectly.
"This commitment meets all three topic areas for this year's CGI program — jobs, sustainable consumption and empowering girls and women," said Ferrari. "But more interesting is that these are already key components of Heifer's holistic community development model."
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