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For children, an egg is the chance to grow healthy and strong, to concentrate in school.

For family farmers, eggs offer the opportunity to increase their incomes, diversify their crops as a hedge against unpredictable weather, and contribute to local food production and strengthen local economies.

But most eggs are not harvested in Haiti, which only produces enough food for less than half of its population. Instead, they are imported, part of more than $700 million spent annually by the small island nation on food imports.

Redirecting some of those millions to local farmers could be a game changer for the communities of rural Haiti, where two-thirds of children are malnourished and most families live in chronic poverty. Facilitating these important community connections can increase the income of local farmers and improve children’s health and education, and is exactly what the W.K. Kellogg Foundation has partnered with the KORE Foundation to do.

In 2017, the organization piloted a small project to train and equip farmers in Haiti’s Central region to produce eggs for local school children. The four participating farmers collectively provide one egg a day to more than 800 students, and are projected to earn at least $1,200 annually through the sale of eggs and poultry meat — an enormous amount of money in a country where 70 percent of rural households live on less than $2 a day.  

With that money comes greater economic stability, food security and independence for the farmers, their families and their communities. 

“I have big dreams for my daughter,” says Solange Taillefer, a participating farmer and mother who received only five years of formal education and is using the extra income to pay school fees for her daughter and grandchild. “I send her to school and her child too. I wish for her to learn something and make a living for herself to be able to provide for her family.”