Breadfruits are falling from the trees, and for the first time, the locals in our region are “catching” them. Now that we have a mill, word has spread all the way to Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince (PaP) about our new shop and services.
Thanks to our team’s hard work and word of mouth, our team has its first buyer! Someone from PaP ordered 100 pounds of breadfruit flour to sell in their store. This has increased the demand for the fruit, and locals are “catching” and cutting their breadfruit in tiny slivers with knives and graters, drying them, and then grinding the dried pieces in our mill for shipment to PaP.
One of our missions is to create self-sustainability in Haiti, and we’re happy to see people bringing in their own income from the breadfruit flour. When I go to Haiti, in late summer, even though the trees have little to give, I won’t see hungry people because they will have ground breadfruit flour and saved.
I need your help to spread the word and educate people on how to make use of the mill to create a healthy diet year-round. From breadfruit, cacao, peanuts, and corn, to yucca root flour, our mill will allow people to conserve more food than ever before during the dry summer season.
