Agricultural Missions, Inc.
2010 Study Session will be held in
conjunction with the II U.S. Social Forum, June 22-26 2010 in Detroit,
Michigan.
For more info on the U.S. Social
Forum
click here
Immokalee Workers March
April 16-18, 2010
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Strategic Haitian-Led Program to Rebuild Haiti's Rural Economy and Save
Lives:
Join AMI in our support and accompaniment of a Haitian rural alliance with
visionary plan.
FIGHT THE FLAIL OF HUNGER IN HAITI!!
HELP THE HAITIANS REBUILD THEIR SOCIETY
TODAY!!
(Online Donations)
Here we see the need for water management to rebuild Haitian agriculture. Photo: Grassroots International
AMI staff person
Stephen Bartlett, accompanying Lionel Derenoncourt of the Presbyterian
Hunger Program, traveled to Papay, Haiti for a week of meetings of an
alliance of Haitian-led organizations working together under the banner of
FONDAMA, Hand in Hand Foundation of Haiti, and hosted by the 35-year
veteran rural development organization the Mouvement Paysan of Papay
(Peasant Movement of Papay), or MPP. FONDAMA representatives arrived
from the four corners of Haiti to plan out an urgent and visionary plan
for the future of rural Haiti.
The historic scale
of this catastrophe is numbing to contemplate. An entire capital
city of a nation has been destroyed, its people killed, maimed, injured,
made homeless and even more hungry and destitute than they already were.
A mass urban to rural migration has taken place and is underway,
overwhelming rural host families who have opened their doors to the
displaced victims of the earthquake. FONDAMA member organizations
are nevertheless among some of the strongest institutions in the rural
areas, and they are stepping up to work to transform this situation of
desperation and human suffering into a rural revitalization, a successful
reverse migration to the impoverished rural areas.
(more)
To read the
February 12, 2010 communiqué that came out of the FONDAMA meeting
click here
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