La Vega, Dominican Republic

 
 

Location: Dominican Republic

Date: Complete Jan 2025

Project type: Aquaponic Farm

Partners: Tears

Project Cost: $

 

Size and capacity

  • 45’ x 30’: Steel structure footprint

  • 40,000 Gallons: Recirculating water tanks

  • 4/10,000 Gallon: Plastic fish tanks

  • 5,730 Gallon: Water filtration System

 

Dominican Republic statistics

  • U.S.Dept.of State: Tier 2

  • Population: 41,734,259

  • Victimization: Labor and Sexual Trafficking/Exploitation, Child soldiers kidnapping/recruitment

Details

This project is in partnership with TEARS, an organization that provides food and education to over 800 undocumented children and clean water to a community of over 30,0000 people. We are proud to come alongside TEARS to help add sustainability to their incredible work. 

We’ve been consulting and training TEARS on their farm program for the past year, but now Alyson has been able to spend time updating their aquaculture system in person. Next, FFC and TEARS will construct a new greenhouse with a recirculating aquaponic system to grow leafy greens. This development will be a huge commodity and provide both food and income to their program. 

 
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