Yvener Jean Michel has more than eight years of experience working on projects related to environmental issues and agricultural development. Jean Michel’s work focus on teaching eco-friendly agricultural techniques, raising environmental awareness, and assisting people in gardening and establishing permacultural community gardens. Jean Michel also works as project manager for Concern Worldwide, managing a project called “Food, Incomes and Market” that seeks to build the assets of poor and vulnerable people via agricultural activities and economic support, reduce the social inequalities between those poor people (specifically women) and the rest of the population via basic literacy and social trainings, and reduce environmental risks. As a CSP Fellow at Victory Garden Initiative in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Jean Michel completed a Permaculture class and focused on a project called “Community Concordia Garden.” With the knowledge he gained in class, he developed the garden by composting, planting fruit trees and services berries, making urban farms, and coordinating groups of volunteers. Following the Community Solutions Program, Jean Michel worked to contribute to the rehabilitation of the environment in Petit-Goâve through the use of permaculture and empowering farmers and youth to change the way they interact with the environment.

Email: jmyven@yahoo.fr