SEEDS for HAITI is an emergency initiative to prevent famine in Haiti and to create a “seed bank” for Haitian farmers that was launched by Bassin Zim Education and Development Fund. Bassin Zim EDF is a non-profit organization that has been in existence since 1993 and was known as MPPEDF in Boston, MA.

SEEDS for HAITI was launched in March 2009 and raises funds to buy bean and corn seeds,  which grow quickly, to prevent post-hurricane famine in Haiti.

The campaign’s immediate goal was to raise $115,000 to buy seeds for 5,000 Haitian peasant farmers for the agricultural season in April, 2009.

Hundreds of Haitian peasant farmers who lost their entire crops and livestock in 2008 hurricanes are struggling to survive and now the quake has only added to their burdens.

Since growing food is the most efficient and nutritious way for Haitian peasant farmers to sustain themselves, Bassin Zim is launching SEEDS for HAITI to provide immediate help for the upcoming growing season.

Farmers will contribute seeds from their new crops back to SEEDS for HAITI to help establish an ongoing “seed bank” for the future.

In the recent aftermath of the Earthquake that has devastated Haiti especially Port-Au-Prince and its surrounding regions, thousaunds of people are fleeing the city and are migrating to more rural areas that are less populated. This places a burden on regions that are not equipped to house, feed, nor treat such an immense population. Therefore, Bassin Zim has commited itself to alleviating the burden by sending down funds, supplies and medicine to sustain Hinche's (a rural town northeast of Port-Au-Prince) MPP training center that is already housing hundreds of refugees that migrated from the capital.