A Sign of Economic Growth in FdB

As a result of a goat-breeding project organized and maintained by RATRAP, the largest local peasant cooperative in Fond des Blancs, and supported, in part, by the St. Boniface Haiti Foundation, Fond des Blancs today sells an average of 1,000 goats per week to residents all across Haiti's Southern Department. The goats, which Haitians buy to raise, sell, or eat may also be indirectly responsible for an increase in school attendance in the past few years, as residents often use the monetary supplement that the goats provide to send their children to school each Fall. RATRAP leadership believes that the program may have set Fond des Blancs on a path to become the goat-market capital of the department.