Thanks to a local magistrate, we’re now able to add mango trees to our list of new growth for the fall rains. A $40 donation brings 240 mangos to the nursery, and once the mangoes are in, we invite locals to enjoy them. Of course, the children get to eat first, and they eat mango until their bellies are full and sometimes sore. Everyone drops off the seed pods and we gather as much as we can to prepare for soil planting.
Beyond growing mango trees, we also want to take advantage of all the mature mango trees and the fruit they're already providing. Throughout the years, we've seen mangos come into season, mangos fall and rot on the ground, then a month later we see locals struggling to find enough rich natural nutritious food. So our next goal is to start preserving mangoes before they rot, and add mango slices to our all-natural shop.
Thanks to our partnership with Trees That Feed Foundation, we've been gifted a commercial-grade food processor to cut perfectly thin mango slices. We're also building a solar dehydrator that can dry hundreds of mango slices at once.
This is going to be huge for adding more jobs and income throughout our nursery. We should be receiving these by the end of the month, and we're hoping you could pitch in with a one-time donation. These are our current fund needs:
Transporting these machines across Haiti - $150
Cement foundation for the dehydrator - $300
Secure fencing around the dehydrator - $200
