Hope for a greener Haiti
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Photo by Melissa EngleForests have all but disappeared from Haiti’s hills and mountainsides. In their place are slopes of grass and bare dirt.
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Photo by Melissa EngleWood is the main source of cooking fuel in rural Haiti. Overcutting and overgrazing have decreased forest cover dramatically, causing erosion and other environmental problems that impact farmers.
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Photo by Melissa EngleMCC is supporting 23 community tree nurseries around the town of Desarmes in central Haiti. The nurseries produce more than 400,000 tree seedlings per year.
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Photo by Melissa EngleSoufiana Elistin and her husband Emmanuel Bois-Rond, at right, planted hundreds of seedlings on their land. They are cutting trees in gradual ways that keep the land forested.
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Photo by Melissa EngleCommunity tree nurseries produce many varieties of fruit and forest trees, including kampech, a forest tree whose leaves are pictured here.
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Photo by Melissa EngleCharles Filance works in a tree nursery in the rural community of Dris. The nursery has produced hundreds of thousands of seedlings since it was formed in 1991.
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Photo by Melissa EngleMCC supports environmental education classes at 12 schools in and around Desarmes. Students mix potting soil during a field trip to a community tree nursery.
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Photo by Melissa EngleJak Guérin, a nursery worker, teaches students about the components of good soil.
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Photo by Melissa EngleSoil and seeds are placed into small plastic bags or cones in order to grow seedlings.
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Photo by Melissa EngleWorkers clean out thousands of cones in a stream beside a tree nursery in the rural community of Kabay.
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Photo by Melissa EngleMonius Moneus, a local farmer, planted an acre and a half with trees that he is gradually harvesting to support his family of four.
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Photo by Melissa EngleMary Rose Louise planted hundreds of trees around her family’s house on a hilltop.“I want the whole savannah to be covered with trees,” she says.
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