President Michel Martelly in Cotes-de-Fer

Also high on the agenda was the perpetuating of the Ede Pèp initiative. Martelly visited the National School of Côtes-de-Fer and witnessed the issuing out of a food kit by the FAES (Fund of Economic and Social Assistance. There, Martelly spoke on the necessity for a self-sustainable food supply, describing the need as pivotal for any real growth in Haiti.

FAES made other food kit distributions under the Ede Pèp program in Gris-Gris, a communal section of Côtes-de-Fer, where the President met successfully with the area's farmers. Also in attendance was the Minister of Agriculture, Jacques Thomas, Minister of Social Affairs, Charles Jean-Jacques, Minister Delegate to the Prime Minister responsible for promoting the peasantry, Dr. Felix Mimose and Senator Edwin Zenny. The President also took the opportunity to distribute agricultural material to the farmers' association including 32 pumps that will bring water to one thousand hectares of land. A further allotment of a hundred goat kids were given to fifty families to encourage breeding with the understanding that further donations be made to other participating farmers once the first litters are born.

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