Understanding the History
[Tuesday, June 9th, 2009]
We met a new Fonkoze staff member named Sabenne. Sabenne will be replacing Amy in Fonkoze’s financial records department. The job responsibilities entail writing donor reports to Fonkoze’s donors. Amy and her brother will leave Haiti in a few days so they decided to go to the waterfall in Sodo. The Sodo waterfall is the city’s main attraction. Foreigners and Haitians living abroad come into Sodo for the month of July. The waterfalls are said to have mystical blessings and provide miraculous healings.
[Wednesday, June 10th, 2009]
Fonkoze and Concern Worldwide staff visited Defare in Boukan Kare, Haiti to meet with the CLM members. As the case managers met with the members they spoke with them on a public health issue of family planning. Many women have multiple children and they are barely able to afford feeding, clothing and educating one child. Amongst the CLM members there is a strong sense of camaraderie and sisterhood. In Defare, a CLM member was kicked out of her home. Another CLM member said through CLM they are sisters, so she will take the CLM member and her six children into her home.
[Thursday, June 11th, 2009]
Yesol and I saw a powerpoint presentation to understand the workings of the Chemin Lavi Miyo (CLM) program presented by Gauthier. The programs aim is to reach “the poorest of the poor.” Fonkoze’s president, Anne, sought ways to reach out to people in the lowest socioeconomic class. Anne came up with the idea of “Ti Kredi” and realized this program could not reach the “poorest of the poor.” Gautheir is the Director of the Chemin Lavi Miyo program and Ti Kredi. The “Ti Kredi” program provides Fonkoze member with micro-loans, while the “Chemin Lavi Miyo” program is an outreach program to uplift the ‘poorest of the poor.” The CLM program is a Targeting the Ultra Poor (TUP) program modeled after TUP programs in Bangladesh.
Siyed Hashimi, of the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) housed in the World Bank helped CLM through as a TUP program. The success of CLM as a TUP program will be big because Haiti is considered to be a fragile state.
The CLM selection process begins with invitations sent for a meeting and it is followed by:
- social mapping done at the meeting.
- wealth categorization of five categories from the richest person to the poorest. Rich people are defined by how much land they own, where their children go to school, etc.
- card evaluation (Fonkoze poverty card)
- food security index developed by the World Food Programme.
The women selected into the CLM program have food insecurity and hunger. The CLm members meet the requirement that they are a woman with no assets and some children. The CLM members range in age from 15 to 65 years of age. An exception was made when a mother died of hunger and her 14 year old daughter was selected for the CLM program. The primary selection list is made in conversation with case managers.
From experiences of the phase I pilot program, the staff learned to ask women where your husband is instead of what your husband does. During the selection process, some women are so embarrassed by their situation that they lie about their poverty. The CLM member’s children will tell the truth about their suffering. At the second visit, the staff members tell the women about the program and ask them to select two out of three enterprises.
During training, amenities such as transportation and food (two meals and a snack) are provided to the CLM members, based on the concept of “Empty Belly, Empty Head.” When a CLM member selects the goat rearing enterprise, the goats are inoculated. In the pilot program, chickens were brought from the Dominican Republic. The imported chickens died because they were exposed to the elements such as sun and rain. The food eaten by a chicken must be balanced so that the chicken lays good eggs. Egg layers were bought. After sixteen weeks, chickens are laid. The caged chickens can lay five eggs per day.
Following asset transfers of chickens, goats or small commerce, the home visits to CLM
[Saturday, June 13th, 2009]
Went to a Fort and saw statues and monuments in Port-Au-Prince.
We met a new Fonkoze staff member named Sabenne. Sabenne will be replacing Amy in Fonkoze’s financial records department. The job responsibilities entail writing donor reports to Fonkoze’s donors. Amy and her brother will leave Haiti in a few days so they decided to go to the waterfall in Sodo. The Sodo waterfall is the city’s main attraction. Foreigners and Haitians living abroad come into Sodo for the month of July. The waterfalls are said to have mystical blessings and provide miraculous healings.
[Wednesday, June 10th, 2009]
Fonkoze and Concern Worldwide staff visited Defare in Boukan Kare, Haiti to meet with the CLM members. As the case managers met with the members they spoke with them on a public health issue of family planning. Many women have multiple children and they are barely able to afford feeding, clothing and educating one child. Amongst the CLM members there is a strong sense of camaraderie and sisterhood. In Defare, a CLM member was kicked out of her home. Another CLM member said through CLM they are sisters, so she will take the CLM member and her six children into her home.
[Thursday, June 11th, 2009]
Yesol and I saw a powerpoint presentation to understand the workings of the Chemin Lavi Miyo (CLM) program presented by Gauthier. The programs aim is to reach “the poorest of the poor.” Fonkoze’s president, Anne, sought ways to reach out to people in the lowest socioeconomic class. Anne came up with the idea of “Ti Kredi” and realized this program could not reach the “poorest of the poor.” Gautheir is the Director of the Chemin Lavi Miyo program and Ti Kredi. The “Ti Kredi” program provides Fonkoze member with micro-loans, while the “Chemin Lavi Miyo” program is an outreach program to uplift the ‘poorest of the poor.” The CLM program is a Targeting the Ultra Poor (TUP) program modeled after TUP programs in Bangladesh.
Siyed Hashimi, of the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) housed in the World Bank helped CLM through as a TUP program. The success of CLM as a TUP program will be big because Haiti is considered to be a fragile state.
The CLM selection process begins with invitations sent for a meeting and it is followed by:
- social mapping done at the meeting.
- wealth categorization of five categories from the richest person to the poorest. Rich people are defined by how much land they own, where their children go to school, etc.
- card evaluation (Fonkoze poverty card)
- food security index developed by the World Food Programme.
The women selected into the CLM program have food insecurity and hunger. The CLm members meet the requirement that they are a woman with no assets and some children. The CLM members range in age from 15 to 65 years of age. An exception was made when a mother died of hunger and her 14 year old daughter was selected for the CLM program. The primary selection list is made in conversation with case managers.
From experiences of the phase I pilot program, the staff learned to ask women where your husband is instead of what your husband does. During the selection process, some women are so embarrassed by their situation that they lie about their poverty. The CLM member’s children will tell the truth about their suffering. At the second visit, the staff members tell the women about the program and ask them to select two out of three enterprises.
During training, amenities such as transportation and food (two meals and a snack) are provided to the CLM members, based on the concept of “Empty Belly, Empty Head.” When a CLM member selects the goat rearing enterprise, the goats are inoculated. In the pilot program, chickens were brought from the Dominican Republic. The imported chickens died because they were exposed to the elements such as sun and rain. The food eaten by a chicken must be balanced so that the chicken lays good eggs. Egg layers were bought. After sixteen weeks, chickens are laid. The caged chickens can lay five eggs per day.
Following asset transfers of chickens, goats or small commerce, the home visits to CLM
[Saturday, June 13th, 2009]
Went to a Fort and saw statues and monuments in Port-Au-Prince.
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