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Lions Hope for Haiti

Haiti Earthquake Relief

January 12, 2010

Presented by Elien Van Dille, Past Council Chairman MD112 2009-10

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Belgian Lions Hope for Haiti

264.024,20 EUR

Thanks for your generosity!

• Multiple District 112 Belgium • 4 Districts D112-A, B, C and D • 87 Lions Clubs • 467 individual Lions -> average donation: 112 EUR

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Belgian Lions Hope for Haiti Thanks to the Belgian Lions core team Hope for Haiti! PID Philippe Gerondal PCC Elien Van Dille PDG Stefaan Willems PCC Jacques De Moor Bart Guns and Jean-Pierre Vermaut Françis Claerhout (D112-A), Rik Lesperoy (D112-B), PDG José Leclef (D112-C) and Jacques Fondu (D112-D)

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Belgian Lions Hope for Haiti Several meetings from the Belgian Lions core team Hope for Haiti to evaluate and select one or more projects Finally, we selected the Belgian PROTOS project

Food security, hygiene and sanitation in Belladère, Haiti

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Belgian Lions Hope for Haiti

Lions Clubs International Convention Sydney (Australia) (July, 2010)

Meeting LCIF responsibles and Hope for Haiti Coordinator Meeting Haitian Lions Delegation + Zone President William Eliacin and Pierre-Richard Duchemin

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Lions Worldwide Hope for Haiti LCIF collected more than US$ 6,1 millions The major donors were: 649.326 USD - MD105 British Isles and Ireland 638.208 USD - MD101 Sweden 525.578 USD - MD111 Germany 371.829 USD - MD108 Italy 336.989 USD - MD201 ANZI-Pacific 312.108 USD - MD112 Belgium 290.125 USD - MD107 Finland 279.809 USD - MD104 Norway

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Lions Hope for Haiti

Haiti Earthquake Relief After the earthquake hit Haiti on January 12, 2010, Lions immediately established three tent cities to provide shelter to 2,500 people Afterwards, Lions were helping rebuild vital infrastructure

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Haiti Earthquake Relief LCIF collaborated with Food for the Poor to construct: - 400 permanent homes and a community center - LCIF provided US$ 1.5 million, Food for the Poor contributed

US$ 1.28 million 600 Haitian families moved into new, temporary homes thanks to an initiative between LCIF, the Lions of MD111 Germany and HELP, an international non-governmental organization. The families are those who were initially sheltered in Lions' tent cities. LCIF provided US$ 1.4 million for this project.

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Haiti Earthquake Relief Four classrooms and a laboratory are a part of the new National Nursing School of Port au Prince, where 350 students will study annually. Even before the earthquake, there was a shortage of trained healthcare professionals, especially nurses. LCIF provided US$ 368,421, or 27 percent of the total project cost for construction and equipment expenses. The project is in partnership with HumaniTerra International, a non-governmental organization devoted to surgery.

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Haiti Earthquake Relief Lions reconstructed the Notre Dame School in Port-au-Prince through an International Assistance Grant with the French Lions of District 103-SW. The school, founded in 1978, serves students from disadvantaged families and is supported by the non-governmental organization SOS Enfants Sans Frontières (SOS Children without Borders).

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Haiti Earthquake Relief

Another Belgian initiative (budget 15.000 EUR) Sponsored by Lion René Vlaeyen, Lions Club Diest (District 112-B) and vzw Medico Lions Clubs Belgium asbl In collaboration with Fonkoze (Haiti’s Alternative Bank for the Organized Poor) Natasha Blanc and Carine Roenen, a Belgian doctor living in Port-au-Prince (Haiti) since more than 18 years

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Haiti Earthquake Relief

Construction of 3 homes

Water: DE hefboom tot ontwikkeling

L’eau: LE levier du développement

Water: THE lever for development

Food security in the watershed of the River Onde

Verte in the municipality of Belladère, Haiti

65th National Convention Lions Clubs MD112 Belgium

Liège - June 15, 2013

Fresh water and food security

Daily drinking requirement per person = 2 to 4 litres

Daily food requirement per person = 2 000 to 5 000 litres for it’s production

About 840 million people suffer from malnutrition

95 % in developing countries

FAO: by 2030 increase by 55 % of the demand for food based on population growth and higher consumption / capita

Food demand Fresh water resources

Today 2030 Today 2030

Irrigated agriculture versus rainfed agriculture

Rainfed agriculture: 80 % of the arable land

Irrigated agriculture: 20 % of the arable land

Irrigation: 40 % of the world’s food production

Productivity of irrigated land is 100 to 400 % higher than of non-irrigated land for

most crops

Changes in rainfall patterns (Climate Change) will lead to decrease of yields from rain-depend agriculture (up to 50 %)

arable land food production

irrigated agriculture

rainfed agriculture

Irrigated agriculture: the solution?

Organisational inefficiency and social injustice inappropriate technology exclusion of the poorest inadequate financial management unfair water distribution

Poor drainage and irrigation practices leads to water logging

Poor drainage leads to silting Erosion leads to filling up of the irrigation canals Poor drainage leads to the rising of the ground water

level => Attention for technological, productive, social,

management and environmental aspects

Irrigation scheme

of Croix-Fer, Haiti

Belladère:

123 / 133 municipalities with access to social services / extremely poor

income: 50 to 100 US$/month . person

5 200 refugees on 79 000 inhabitants irrigation scheme of Croix Fer

important in food security

12th of January 2010: earthquake in Port-au-Prince 200 000 dead; 300 000 injured; 500 000 internal

refugees

Belladère

The project

Food security in the watershed of the River Onde Verte in the municipality of Belladère, Haiti

Final budget: 663.000 EUR Funding: LCIF, Lions Clubs MD112-Belgium and vzw Medico Lions Clubs Belgium asbl

(individual Lions members) 246 000 US$, in 3 disbursements, or 27 percent of the total project cost for construction and equipment expenses

Belgian government: 481 000 EUR (through 11 11 11) Duration: 3 years Start: 1/1/2011 Implementing agency: PROTOS NGO

Problems

Irrigation scheme managed by a local committee without any training

Irregular availability of water Erosion of the valley => filling

up of the canals and inundation Intensive maintenance The lack of a storage facilities for

the harvests The difficulty to obtain fertilizers

Opportunities

Irrigation scheme exists for more than 20 years

Great demand and collaboration from local population

Possibility for extension (350 ha -> 600 ha)

Possibility for commercialization: Trade with Port-au-Prince and

Dominican Republic National policy to buy locally grown

food

Interventions

To improve auto-consumption and income from agriculture in Croix Fer for 800 families

Developing and extension (350 ha => 600 ha)

Environmental protection

Increase and diversification of food

production

The storage, transformation, and commercialization

Improvement of the management

Results after 1 year

1 600 m of new canals 800 m of canals cleaned Study for environmental measures Building of storage facility and drying

device Purchasing of two metal silos Building of Ecosan latrines Training of farmers on agricultural

techniques Training of management committee

Effect Extension 60 ha Reduction of maintenance 5 times

to 3 times Increase production beans: + 20 %

Results after 2 years

Study for the extension of the irrigation scheme 3.585 m of new and rehabilitated canals 295 ha irrigated Increase of 139 farmers working on the irrigation scheme Protection of 4,22 km of ravines and construction of 76 anti-errosion structures 30 farmers using fertilizers from Ecosan and Bidur

Results after 2 years

Two metal silos being used for storage of the harvest 25 farmers trained on treatment and conservation of grains and seeds Training of management committee on organizational, technical and financial aspects Cleaning up of public places (such as slaughterhouse, market, …) by local population Public hygiene awareness campaign for 8.000 people Sensitization of pupils in 3 schools on hygiene, sanitation and environmental aspects

PROTOS follow up

PROTOS in Belgium Dirk Glas Coordinator South Desk Johan Slimbrouck Coordinator South Desk (as from August 1, 2013) PROTOS in Haiti Martine Haentjens Country representative in Haiti Living since long time in the country

LCIF follow up and witness visits

LCIF responsibles - Oak Brook (USA) Jennifer Mallman Regional Program Specialist - Latin America and the Caribbean KaSondra L. Byrd LCIF Manager Haitian Lions William Eliacin Pierre-Richard Duchemin Belgian Lions (visit November 30, 2012) Edwin de Boevé, Director Dynamo International Member of Lions Club Bruxelles Centenaire and his spouse Raguini

Pictures on site

Pictures on site

Construction of new irrigation canals

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New irrigation canals in action

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The silos for storage of the harvest

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Construction of the shop for agricultural products

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Demonstration of using paper instead of charcoal

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Sanitation training for school children

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The Ecosan latrines – Bidur

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Farmer in action – crops in action !

Witness quotes

L’équipe “Nous avons rencontré en Martine Haentjens une femme pleine de vivacité, de combativité, de ressources, de connaissances pour mener à bien ce projet. L’équipe sur place, composée d’ingénieurs, d’agronomes, de techniciens haïtiens est incroyable. Tous ont pris de leur temps pour nous expliquer et nous faire visiter les installations, constructions ainsi que les projets annexes.” Sur place “L’équipe sur place y fait un travail remarquable!”

Lion Edwin de Boevé et Raguini

Thank you

PROTOS

www.protosh2o.org

Water: DE hefboom tot ontwikkeling

L’eau: LE levier du développement

Water: THE lever for development

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LCIF Evening MD112-Belgium (November 10, 2003)

LCIF Chairman and PIP Kay K. Fukushima

“For European Lions, less is more!”

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LCIF Melvin Jones Fellowship Recognition Program

1 LCIF Melvin Jones Fellowship

US$ 1,000 or … 770 EUR *

* EUR-USD exchange rate 1,30

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Idea of the Day • Why not give a Melvin Jones Fellowship to a

deserving non-Lion in your local community?

• As a recognition of his/her commitment to humanitarian work

• To highlight his/her humanitarian qualities such as generosity, compassion and concern for others

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THANK YOU!