Who We Help

Currently, we are providing financial and business assistance to the Haitian agricultural organization, Planting for Hope and Future (PHF). The PHF mission statement is: “PHF seeks to use sustainable agriculture projects to improve the lives and opportunities of the Haitian people.  Through agricultural advances, environmental stewardship, education, and Christian values, PHF seeks to ensure that the people of Haiti can build toward a strong, self-sustainable economic future for themselves and for generations to follow.”

 PHF has already begun to  accomplish its goals which are:
To START - Phase 1 - renting farmland for use as model farms in the Southwestern coastal area of Les Cayes, Haiti, in order for community farmers to observe the progress of more significant crop production, create jobs, and bring food to the marketplace.
To PROGRESS - Phase 2- creating a type of micro-finance through a partnership with rural landowning farmers by PHF providing seeds, fertilizers, and expertise, while rural farmers provide land, and workers for planting, weeding, harvesting. Both PHF and landowning farmers share a percentage of the harvests.
To EDUCATE  - rural farmers and community members with new farming methods, technology, and the importance of preserving the environment.
To INCREASE - opportunities for rural farmers through multiplying crop production, locating larger retail markets, and making a new beginning toward independence, self-reliance and hope for a better future.

Frantz Dorcel Ady, Founder, PHF

“We have to find a way to move forward.  There will be challenges, but we are ready for them.  We want to stay there forever; the vision is not just for us.  The vision is for generation to generation.  God has given me the vision; I just need to pass it on.

Frantz Dorcel Ady, PHF Founder and Executive Director

Frantz Dorcel Ady (known as Ady) was orphaned at two when both his parents were murdered in 1987. He was raised in poverty by his paternal Grandmother and Aunt. Ady grew up in a strong Christian environment, with values of helping others anytime there was a need. When he was at American University of the Caribbean (AUC), majoring in Environmental Studies, Ady felt God asking him to help Haiti through agriculture. Ady was driven by this desire, and after graduation from AUC, he traveled to the U.S., through The Ohio State University International Internship Program (2010-2011), working in North Carolina, at Metrolina Greenhouses. During his internship, Ady visited a community garden in California, where he realized that the technology of a drip irrigation system, affordable and efficient, was the one thing that could change farming in Haiti. He knew everything he learned during this trip could be transferred to his country, including the method of share cropping, thus helping the community farmers benefit by making farming self- sustainable.

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PHF Team and Board of Directors

Frantz Girodier, Rochelin Forzene, Jude Denis, Frantz Dorcel Ady, Naive Augustave - All five have formal degrees in Agricultre, Accounting and Environmental Science