Starfysh

“Officer reviews and updates any projects that have begun in the past year. Also reviews projects that are ongoing and makes any necessary updates to that information.”

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“Starfysh has determined to focus on one of the world's most desperate geographic locales and people groups: that of the island of la gonave, haiti. It is both our purpose and our expectation that we will be able to reverse the cycle of poverty there through the addressing of essential infrastructural needs (water, agriculture, health) while developing a model for sustaining those improvements (education and economic development). While working toward these goals, we will not ignore the opportunities for demonstrating christian compassion in times of urgent, immediate, and desperate need.”

“Locally-grown food) every school day. Starfysh completed construction on phase-one on makochon's new school. Half of the school's grades have moved in to the new facility.”

“Year's arrival of island farmers attending our agriculture conferences. We took possession of our second life garden campus, a 4-acre parcel in the mountains. Here we will nurture hundreds of thousands of tree, coffee bush, and banana seedlings for island-wide distribution.”

“Will take care of all their on-field logistics. This model also defrays the cost of the yearly lease of the starfysh guesthouse/base of operations here on the island. This model of receiving guests works well: we have received high marks from all the teams we have hosted.”

“Guesthouse expenses/base of operations key to starfysh's effectiveness on the ground is our base of operations in haiti from which all projects are planned and carried out. Establishing this base was an important, strategic first step as we build in-field capacity for carrying out our mission in the years to come. The starfysh base is located in the village of anse-a-galets, on the island of la gonave, some 12 miles offshore of mainland haiti. We chose anse-a- galets as a good temporary base, as it is the only village on the island that has both an airstrip and a boat port. Our base consists of a small house that we currently lease on a year-to-year basis. We consider it as a temporary base that we will maintain until we can build our own base of operations up in the geographic center of the island of la gonave. The house is simple, furnished in a very utilitarian way. It has a small kitchen and can sleep up to twelve workers at a time. Electricity is provided by generators. Water for showers , sinks, and toilets is gravity fed by an onroof water cistern. The house is gated and guarded, allowing for us to use the yard as a staging area for project equipment and supplies. We have two heavy duty 4-wheel drive trucks and two 4-wheel atv's without which navigation in the la gonave mountains would be impossible. General fund/where needed most to provide for overhead costs to run organization, allow starfysh to designate funds to projects that need a bit of extra funds. Economic development if the island of la gonave is ever to truly rise out of desperate poverty, it will be her people that do the raising. One day, her people must carry on the work which we have started. In order for that to happen, an economy must rise up that can support and sustain and grow the project efforts starfysh helps to initiate. Imbedded in all our project efforts are ideas and plans for economic self-sustainability. Starfysh values the importance of helping qualified and promising individuals to establish businesses. In a pilot effort this past year, we conducted business training for twelve individuals. At the completion of their training they were each granted startup micro-loans. We also assisted two other individuals in expanding their small businesses. We have determined that for the upcoming year, until we can provide closer oversight and mentoring to new entrepreneurs, we will likely not fund new business startups. Church/village partnership one of the starfysh models for project development is to bring in sponsoring partners who will adopt and underwrite the project. One such example, and our first large-scale example of this is the partnership we have created between a stateside church (berkley hills community church in grand rapids, michigan) and the remote village of makochon. In a seven-year sponsorship agreement, berkley has agreed to financially partner with starfysh in bringing holistic lift to the village, with heavy support in the first year and gradually diminishing support over the seven years. The village has excitedly agreed to this plan of development of their community and has already, in this first year, demonstrated a strong response to this incentive. Makochon's school is up and running. We are excited about the possibility that this partnership model can be used for many future efforts on the island. Latrines essentially no households on la gonave have a flush toilet and, astonishingly, fewer than 10% of the 10,000 families on the island of la gonave, haiti have even a basic outhouse latrine. This, in a land where diarrheal illnesses (e.g. Typhoid, hepatitis, cholera, etc.) are one of the leading causes of death. Urination and defecation are done on the surface of the ground wherever and whenever the need presents itself, and without regard to, or even the understanding of the consequences to health and disease. As we move about the la gonaves villages, one of our starting points is educating their people on the importance of”

“Missionary support 25,033 0 0 base of operations 22,305 0 0 guesthouse expenses 19,894 0 0 medical treatment 14,184 0 0 education 11,700 0 0 berkley/mar kochon 10,401 0 0 economic development 2,627 0 0”