ORGANIZATION FOR THE REHABILITATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT

Your donations to ORE will have a real and lasting impact on reducing poverty and improving the environment in Haiti. Every gift goes straight to the people you want to help. As a US 501(c) Non Profit organization with over 25 years of Haitian-based activities, we are able to keep our costs to a minimum ensuring that your gift goes directly to those with the greatest needs.

Faire un don a ORE pour aider les pauvres et les victimes du tremblement de terre en Haiti en 2010. Nos fonds vont directement et integralement a ORE Haiti qui est une organisation de base locale dirigée par Dr Monique Pierre Finnigan depuis les années 80. Cette ONG basée à Camp Perrin dans le sud d'Haïti, et située dans une zone qui n'a pas été touchée par le tremblement de terre, organise un programme dans le but de prendre soin des personnes évacuées de Port-au-Prince. Tout don accordé à ce programme ira directement à ceux et celles qui en auront le plus besoin.

ORE is funding micro-enterprise activities with many of the women who migrated from Port-au-Prince to Camp Perrin following the earthquake, helping them to earn their own livelihood again. The credit program has enabled many women, generally heads of families, to start up small businesses as vendors working from their homes, in the market places or in the streets of Port-au-Prince. A simple system was developed to identify the most suitable products for them and help estimate appropriate inventories so as to make their ventures worthwhile.

We are currently focusing on a small group including 12 women involved in small businesses and

With your help, ORE is offering selected families credit for education as well as commercial activities, so as to help cover the expense of school fees – as another important step towards giving the evacuees autonomy. This program is giving many families a sense of dignity, a sense of moving forward – which are essential to maintaining hope.

The program currently provides 100 children in the educational credit program: 30 at the university level, 70 in schools. The credit varies from $125 to $400, school fees averaging $250 per students, including books and uniforms.

Nutritional programs: ORE's crop breeding program is focused on enhancing the nutritional content of Haiti's major staple crops: breeding crops for better nutrition and helping to resolve several factors that contribute to malnutrition in Haiti.

Quality Protein Maize

ORE is currently producing a high-protein, high-yielding variety of corn to help alleviate malnutrition in Haiti. Quality protein maize, or "QPM", originally developed at CIMMYT in Mexico in the late 1990s, contains nearly twice as much usable protein as other maize grown in the tropics and yields substantially more grain than traditional corn. The benefits of this miraculous corn are becoming more widely known. >> more on QPM

Vitamin-rich Sweet Potato

ORE is producing vitamin-A rich yellow fleshed variety of sweet potato to help alleviate malnutrition in Haiti. Sweet potato is a key staple food in the Haitian diet and the 'orange flesh sweet potatoes' is very rich in vitamin A, compared the local varieties. Yields from the new varieties are substantially higher than from traditional sweet potatoes which translates into higher income of farmers. Since 2003 ORE has been working collaborating with CIP, a international research centre and participating in AGROSALUD, the regional bio-fortified food program. >> more on Sweet Potatoes

Trees that make money for farmers
ORE's high value tree crop program is based on the simple premise that by providing the local farmers with commercial tree crops it is possible to promote both sustainable economic growth and long-term protection of the environment. Grafted fruit trees (mango, avocado and citrus) help increase the tree cover by offering trees that create income and provide nutritional benefits tot the community, specially to the children. >> more on high value tree crops