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Haiti Family Empowerment Programme

Part of the Child Sponsorship Programme is being invested into the Family Empowement Program. Income Generation Activities have become an important component of many sustainable development programs. By training local populations to start their own income generating activities and by providing them with initial startup resources in order to do so, organizations have successfully empowered people to contribute to their own communities and sustain their community development projects. Successful Income Generation Activities have included, sustainable farming, craft and jewelry making, drama groups, clothing manufacturing. UCT is striving to acheive similar success in our Family Empowerment Program.

(a) Animal Husbandry. Rearing of animals, pigs, goats, chickens and sheep for domestic purposes and generating some income for families. Animal Husbandry
(b) Agro Projects. Growing of crops, vegetables and fruits for domestic consumption. Generating income from Agricultural and Commercial enterprises and as part of Ecological Reforestation
(c) Woman Initiative. Sewing Machine Project. Income generating project for women in the area.

(d) UCT Target group in this area will be the children, and foster parents in the Family Child Care Village and those in the surrounding community.

Vocational Training Center.

Courses or Programs offered.

• Sewing Classes
• Agricultural Education
• Tree grafting
• Electrical Engineering
• Plumbing
• Carpentry
• Computer Studies

Adult Education Center.

• English classes
• Adult literacy
• Nutrition
• AIDS Education
• Parenting skills
• Mentoring/Counseling skills
• Arts and Music
• Computer Studies

Youth Development Center

• English classes
• Nutrition
• AIDS Education
• Character Enhancement
• Arts and Music
• Sports

The money from the Child Sponsorship Programme will be divided into 3 modules

  1. The first 4 months the fees will go to the school to cover school fees, uniform, books and pencils etc.
  2. The next 4 months the money will be invested into a Family Empowement Programme enabling the family to purchase livestock's such as goats and chickens. This will not only assist with feeding the family but educate the children in self sufficiency.
  3. The last 4 months will be invested in the After School Club which is being established at the local Restoration Ministries Haiti church.This will include an afternoon feeding programme and an early childhood music educational programme, a character building, sports evangelical teaching programme. This educational programme will be partly funded by the Child Sponsorship Programme and the Adopt a School Programme.

How will we help to feed these children?

1. We will provide seed and tools needed to grow food in family kitchen gardens

2. We will purchase goats and chickens to provide a supply of dairy products and meat.

Pastor Rodrique (right) from Restoration Ministries Haiti, is our UCT Haiti Representative, working in association with Pastor Lafleur (centre), from Restoration Ministries Antigua, and Pastor Desrivieres from Ouvriers De La Derniere Heure in Port Au Prince.
The first two months of the Family Empowerment programme will fund the importation of the young chicks from Barbados into Haiti where Restoration Ministries Haiti will establish a chicken business.

This will be used to supply the local families of the sponsored children with chickens for their own home use and supply the poultry needed for the After School Club Feeding Project.

The money from the last two months of this Family Empowement Programme. will go towards purchasing two young female goats per family.

The arrangement with the local families receiving these two kids is that when the nanny goats produce their first litter the first kid will be brought back into the house of the Lord as a first fruit offering.

Seen here the Barbados Black Belly sheep that UCT seeks to introduce into the Family Empowerment Program.

This will enable the church ot establish a goat farm to help with the After School Feeding Programme.

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