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About Us
By providing the community with a safe and sustainable space to grow food and raise animals, in addition to partnering with master gardeners and providing agriculture education, our farmers will be able to feed their families, earn a living wage by taking produce and animals to market, and provide money for their children's school tuition and other basic living necessities.
Vision
Gymps Sunel is the Haitian-born founder of Mango Community Family Farm, a growing agricultural initiative focused on addressing food insecurity and creating sustainable livelihoods in Haiti.
The vision for Mango Farm began when several pallets of unused produce seeds, originally slated for disposal by Bomgaars, a large farm store in Iowa, found their way to Ellen and Gymps. The moment, combined with his upbringing in Haiti, underscored the deepening poverty and hunger affecting families and children in his home country and inspired him to turn those seeds into an opportunity to grow food and hope.
Today, Mango Farm employs 17 full-time staff and includes gardens and greenhouses for produce, a variety of livestock, and multiple poultry operations. The farm also provides daily meals for workers and clean drinking water for the surrounding community through an on-site well and filtration system. Additional facilities and projects are planned to support volunteers and future growth.
Through Mango Community Family Farm, Mango Farm is helping strengthen local food production, create jobs, and build lasting resilience for the communities the farm serves.
Our Story
In 2018, we received a multitude of vegetable seeds donated from Bomgaars, a farm and fleet store in Sioux City, Iowa. Plantings of these seeds all over Haiti has been very successful - this is now our third year of seed donation.
We have also enjoyed collaborating with Helping Haiti Work, a Minnesota non-profit, and also with Days for Girls International. Days for Girls is based in Washington state and provides menstrual education and reusable menstrual supplies for girls and women around the world. Our Sewing Center employs several local Haitian seamstresses to make these kits.
With the launch of Mango Community Family Farm, we are pleased to continue our partnership with Helping Haiti Work. Members of our local farm community in Lagosette will benefit from the use of the land, seeds, irrigation and equipment to work their own plots at Mango Community Family Farm. These farmers will be able to feed their families and sell the excess produce that they grow at the market to raise money to educate their children.
