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Making changes in two sister communities
Cristino Alberto Gómez
Green Quisqueya National Plan
© 2010
Two communities under the same rain and sun
• Magacé and Fondo Grande are two sister communities in the border between Haiti and Dominican Republic.
• Their relationships have been exclusively in a labor context during a long time.
Two environment policies…
Photo by James Blair, 1987. http://therogersinhaiti.wordpress.com
…one trend
Photo by NASA. 2002. http://therogersinhaiti.wordpress.com
Green Quisqueya National Plan
• Green Quisqueya National Plan is a reforestation program implemented by the dominican government to restore the tree coverage in the dominican territory.
• It was first established through the vice-president office and the Ministry of Agriculture in 1996, but it was stopped after 2000.
• In 2007, three years after the reelection of doctor Leonel Fernández, the program restarted.
Green Quisqueya National Plan
• The new program was reforced with the designation of the former vice-president as Minister of Environment and Natural Resources in september 2008.
• The new incumbent assumed the goal of planting 20 million trees per year.
Photo: http://repeatingislands.com
• That year, both Ministries of Environment in Haiti and Dominican Republic signed an agreement to reforest the border areas.
• 5 million wood and fruit trees have being planted as part of this project called “green bordier” (Dominican Today, 2009)
Villa Anacaona Declaration
Photo: www.medioambiente.gov.do
Fondo Grande brigade
• Green Quisqueya works are made by brigades conformed for 5 to 20 members leaded by a forewoman.
• A brigade was designated ro work in Fondo Grande in response of a solicitude made by the Fondo Grande Development Board.
Magacé and the interchanges
• A new brigade was aproved to work across Fondo Grande, in a community called Magacé and I was designated to manage the new micro-project.
Magacé and the interchanges
• The Ministry of Environment reviewed our works a month later and, satisfied by the early results, aproved other brigade.
Magacé and the interchanges
• The new brigade was created to make the link stronger between Fondo Grande and Magacé.
• Every Friday started to be an interchange day.
• 200.000 trees were planted in 8 months.
The recent view of an old reality
• Magacé and Fondo Grande walk together in the solution of their common and single problems, and to improve the life quality of people in both sides of the border.
• The border don’t separate Haiti and Dominican Republic; it links them.
¡Thank you!
Sources of information:
• http://repeatingislands.com/2009/10/23/500000-trees-planted-to-mark-reforestation-month-in-dr/
• http://www5.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2009/6/28/32416/Dominican-Republic-to-reforest-border-withHaiti
• Dominican Today. 2009. Dominican Republic to reforest border with Haiti. http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/poverty/2009/8/5/32821/Haitian-charcoal-makers-ravage-the-border-Dominican-Environment-chief
• http://www.medioambiente.gov.do/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=277&Itemid=236
• http://www.medioambiente.gov.do/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=744&Itemid=248
• http://fondogrande.blogspot.com/2009/03/inician-brigada-quisqueya-verde-en.html
• http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/01/26/1445916/over-the-border-no-welcome-for.html
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