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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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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.
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!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/sep/22/garyyounge.mainsection
http://www.perspectivaciudadana.com/contenido.php?itemid=2972
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.!
Good idea to use that money to invest in 'the wall" to help promote better "greener" agricultural practices in DR and Haiti. LOL.
http://www.clavedigital.com/App_P....ia/Economia.aspx?id_Articulo=8079
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.
-Well, what about the border itself and legalites of immigration itself?
"PADF has been working on the border for five years."
-Oh really?