Oriana is a native of Baille Tourible (Haiti). She is one of the beneficiaries of the first group of families coached by KANPE and its partners. This program aims at fighting at once all the factors linked to the cycle of poverty:  nutrition, health, housing, education, agriculture and leadership.

The thirty-year-old Oriana lives in the town of Fonds Pierre-Jacques with her husband and their five children, not far away from the clinic built by KANPE with its field partner Fonkoze.

“Prior to this program, I had no cattle and couldn’t afford to send my children to school. I started working as soon as I completed the program and was able to buy more sizable cattle.” Oriana Louis

Classified as extremely vulnerable to poverty, Oriana and her family registered for our sponsored program in August 2011. At the time, all they had was a meager source of income. They could neither treat their usable water nor have the knowledge to prevent diseases. Food was not available to feed the family on a daily basis. What follows is a list of her accomplishments after 18 months in our program:

• Improved her housing
• Built latrines and learned how to treat usable water
• Is now able to identify the vitamins content of her foods
• Purchased goats, chickens and pigs to improve her income
• Purchased a mule to transport goods and make her small business more accessible to the public markets of the commune of Thomonde
• Opened a saving account at the Fonkoze branch of Thomonde
• Along with her husband, grows corn, millet, beans and tubers on their land during the rainy seasons
• Learned about birth control

Oriana is still developing her small business, after the program ended in March 2013. She even set goals to improve her family’s lifestyle. Her children are still in school and eat hot meals every day. Her biggest accomplishment is to have learned to write her name well, therefore no longer uses her fingerprints to sign documents.

Oriana is one of the 331 heads of families sponsored by KANPE and her partners in 2013. To find more about Oriana’s story and other beneficiaries’ of our program visit the “Result” page of our website.