Common uses involve school, medicine, and funerals. Women usually are involved in the large scale marketing. She then sells the goods and uses that capital to buy manufactured goods to resale in Le Borgne. The money earned in marketing or saved in promoting health care and in funerals is reinvested in further projects. This ensures economic security by a gradual accumulation of a better lifestyle and by keeping the common wealth flowing among people.
People often burn trees to make and sell charcoal for a living.
Hopes for the Project John Mazzeo is studying the structure and impacts of the project and its methods to generate capital. He is working with HOPE and the people of Le Borgne to ensure that the project takes hold and is successful. At this time, it is hard to evaluate the improvements. Mazzeo will travel back to Haiti to continue studying the impact next year after the project has had some time to show improvements. The peasants themselves want to ensure economic security.