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U.S., IDB Funding to Support Agricultural Development
US$1.1M to bolster Haiti-Dominican border

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WASHINGTON (PRNewswire).

- More than US$1.1 million will be used to improve agricultural training, marketing and planting more profitable crops along the impoverished Haiti-Dominican Republic border, the Pan American Development Foundation (PADF) announced today.

"This project will improve the lives of thousands of small-plot and substance farmers," says John Sanbrailo, Executive Director of PADF. "This new funding builds on PADF's successful record of being a catalyst for sustainable economic development along the border."

With funding from the U.S. Mission to the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), PADF will teach farmers how to manage and sell more profitable crops, create business plans, apply for government loans and credits and reach more consumers.

The one-year initiative allows PADF to work with 30 producer groups in seven communities on both sides of the border.

In the Dominican Republic, PADF will work in Pedernales, Comendador and Dajabon.

In the Haiti, PADF will focus on Anse a Pitres, Fonds Verrettes, Belladere and Ouanaminthe.

The 193-mile frontier between Haiti and the Dominican Republic faces a plethora of problems, including poverty, unemployment, lack of infrastructure and misunderstandings about the potential of bilateral development.

Haiti is the poorest country in the hemisphere with approximately 80 percent of the population living in poverty.

PADF has been working on the border for five years.

Its program, called "Fwontye Nou/Nuestra Frontera" in Creole and Spanish ("Our Border" in English), provides training, technical assistance and cross-border projects that have created economic solutions, bi-national cooperation, cross-border conflict mitigation, and a framework for communities on both sides of the border.

Ambassador Albert Ramdin, the Assistant Secretary General of the OAS and chair of the Haiti Support Group, called on other countries to dedicate more resources to this border region.

"I want to recognize the U.S. Mission to the OAS, as well as the IDB's Multilateral Investment Fund, for their leadership in supporting this important program which is providing cross-border models and methodologies that can be used and expanded by other donors," says Ambassador Ramdin.

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COMMENTS11 comment(s)Report as spam/innapropiateWritten by: Bailarin, 17 Apr 2009 3:03 PM
From: Dominican Republic
And the result?

try 500 more Haitian owned gift shops in sosua, 500,000 more prositutes, 2000,000 more Haitian immigrants and a partridge in pear tree ...Excuse me, I meant to say a president asleep in a palm tree.
Report as spam/innapropiateWritten by: xwill7, 17 Apr 2009 5:08 PM
From: United States, Chicago
If Haiti's economy improves, there will be less illegals in DR...

Report as spam/innapropiateWritten by: AfroLatino, 17 Apr 2009 5:55 PM
From: Dominican Republic, La Union

500,000 more prositutes!?

Yeah right; DR produces more of its own Dominican prostitutes than it is the other way around as. So do not get that mixed up. Do not try to place the prostitution epidemic in DR on Haitians now. Because, as poor as Haiti is you have Dominican prostitute going into Haiti to do simply just that providing such a service.

95% of the protitution brothels in Haiti have nothing but Dominican women in them as they do in most other Countries such as The Netherlands among or just to name a few. Next to Phillipines, Brazil and Dubi; DR is the largest provider of prostitutes.

I mean that honestly of no defaming matter, but simply telling it for what it is and the fact that many men seem to have hots for them more with also the fact that most pimps in Haiti be it a Haitian or Dominican pimps would only pimp Dominican prostitutes because they say it is more lucrative for them. READ UP ON THAT FOLKS.

Do not take my word alone on that.
Report as spam/innapropiateWritten by: ateo1992, 17 Apr 2009 9:04 PM
From: Dominican Republic
how about also build a wall with that money?

Report as spam/innapropiateWritten by: letroudeballeGeneroso, 17 Apr 2009 10:19 PM
From: Dominican Republic
Afro latino for your information:

Nearly 2,500 Haitian children cross over to DR every year for hard labor and prostitution.

Haiti should be embarrassed by the fact that they are sending their children (their next generation instead of their adults) to another country to conduct such demeaning activities for survival and probably to send remittances back to Haiti.

Haiti is COMPLETELY DENYING ITS CHILDREN OF A SAFE AND INNOCENT CHILDHOOD.

THE CHILDREN ARE BEING DENIED AN EDUCATION!

At least DR send their adults to do the adults stuff and they, in turn, send the collected money back to DR to support their children!!! And there are Haitian prostitutes in Santiago, Boca Chica and other tourists areas in DR! It is visually disturbing seeing Europeans drilling Haitian!

guardian.co.uk/world/2005/sep/22/g...
http://www.perspectivaciudadana.com/contenido.php?itemid=2972
Report as spam/innapropiateWritten by: letroudeballeGeneroso, 17 Apr 2009 10:23 PM
From: Dominican Republic
"the potential of bilateral development." What potential development?

Common enlighten us with infinite wisdom U.S.! The U.S. is so knowledgeable about the border between DR and Haiti!

The border has been ignored by Port of Pigs and STO DGO! The last thing we want is for Haiti to take away the border via social-economic integration fed by the U.S.!
Report as spam/innapropiateWritten by: generoso, 17 Apr 2009 11:12 PM
From: United States, Santo Domingo, D.R.
ateo1992
Good idea to use that money to invest in 'the wall" to help promote better "greener" agricultural practices in DR and Haiti.

LOL.
Report as spam/innapropiateWritten by: antonioj, 19 Apr 2009 8:30 PM
From: Canada, Oakville on terra firma
Pimp this Mr letroudeballe

clavedigital.com/App_P...ia/Econo...

Tras crecer las exportaciones formales hacia Haití en 624% entre 2004 y 2008, y situarse en US$569 millones, el país vecino se constituyó en el segundo socio comercial de RD, sólo superado por Estados Unidos.

Este creciente flujo comercial pasa por cuatro puertos formales, en torno a los cuales se organizan las ferias urbanas donde se desarrolla el comercio informal, conectadas a varios circuitos comerciales fronterizos.

En orden de importancia: Jimaní (32%), Dajabón (25%), Elías Piña (24%) y Pedernales.

Report as spam/innapropiateWritten by: Bailarin, 20 Apr 2009 9:33 AM
From: Dominican Republic
Afro latino, you clearly are an ignoramous foaming at the mouth arent you?

Please stay within the context..

Im not talking about statistics or the number of Dominicans versus Haitian prostitutes, but the overall equation ..I lived in the D.R for 2 years so I have a liitle bit of a know about the situation over there ...

As for the love factor ...I dont think I exagerate when I say that A good Haitian woman is better than A great Dominican women.

They JUST melt in your mouth ..aahhh, tell me you love in French mi amore( OR FRENCH CRIOLE), even if it is only for my wallet .lol lol
Report as spam/innapropiateWritten by: Manhattanite, 20 Apr 2009 11:44 AM
From: United States, New York City
Shouldn't the goal of development agencies be to encourage growth BEYOND subsistence farming?

Propping up the border subsistence farming = locking these people into the same mode of life that hasn't worked so far, and attracting more people t live this way along the border.

There are either sinister or naive intentions behind this grant.

Report as spam/innapropiateWritten by: talia, 25 Apr 2009 1:25 PM
From: United States, NY
"More than US$1.1 million will be used to improve agricultural training, marketing and planting more profitable crops along the impoverished Haiti-Dominican Republic border, the Pan American Development Foundation (PADF) announced today."

-Well, what about the border itself and legalites of immigration itself?

"PADF has been working on the border for five years."

-Oh really?

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