A TapTap is a KONKRET franchise farm... operations already established, a business plan ready, and young people set to work it. Four TapTaps in Haiti, each one walked, GPS-pinned, and characterized from the soil up... the dirt tested, the rainfall pulled from fifteen years of record, the land matched to what it can grow and sell. You do not donate. You buy what they grow, and your purchase puts young people to work on their own ground.
Swipe the TapTaps ↓Hand a homeless man a few dollars and he eats tonight... you do not expect him to wake up with a home. That was aid: enough to survive the day, never built to end the problem, and barely 14 cents of every USAID dollar even reached Haiti. Now that it is gone, that is the opening, not the crisis.
Haitians abroad already send home over four billion dollars a year. But it evaporates the moment it lands... a Western Union cut, then dollars turned to gourdes that lose value like land mines in your pocket. It keeps families' heads above water. It just never builds anything that lasts.
It is not that Haitians will not build. They have never been handed the three things it takes... the know-how, anyone to trust with the money, and a real avenue to put it through. That missing avenue is us: twenty years of trust, the knowledge to place every dollar, the infrastructure to turn it into an asset.
Buying Haitian is the right instinct, but alone the money still evaporates. The fix is to buy it through us. We allocate what comes in so it compounds instead of vanishing... it pays the youth, puts real assets under the TapTap, and builds wealth faster than anything else moving in Haiti.
We have spent years on the ground, and now we have the science to prove it. We know each TapTap's soil, water, and the one thing it needs. A sum that would barely register in America rebuilds a life here. This is how the diaspora's money finally stays, and grows.
Before the four below, there was one: the original Tap Tap garden in Cité Soleil, planted by displaced women in 2010. It became the model for everything that followed.
Read the story →Each one surveyed by satellite and soil model this June. Tap a card to open its data... land, market, cost, and the youth it puts to work. Or just sponsor it.
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The richest soil in the set, in the town where seven cassava factories already run. The one TapTap shipping a product today.
Ten youth on a school TapTap with the best road access in the set. A clean anchor... once it beats the dry season.
Flat clay-loam, a strong second cassava plot. A river runs 728 m away, but lifting it year-round is a costly upgrade, not the premise. The parcel is unconfirmed, and a quarry sits next door.
The richest topsoil and the steepest ground. Vetiver leads here... erosion control on the slope and the network's highest-value crop, with tree crops and patient money behind it.
Every TapTap can be equipped from locally-fabricated, already-proven gear... a stainless grater welded in-region, a field-built vetiver still, cascading cacao boxes, covered solar dryers. It costs a fraction of an imported turnkey line, and the money and the fabrication skill stay in the country. Lo-fi is not the compromise here. It is the anti-extraction thesis, in steel and bamboo.
Two clusters... three TapTaps in the cassava-rich Nord, and one agroforestry estate down in Grand'Anse.
These four are the ones we have fully surveyed. Behind them is a network of 25 TapTaps and 310 young people across ten departments, ready to come online as each is characterized.
See all 25 TapTaps →If you have land, equipment, or a youth group ready to work, host a TapTap. Tell us what you have, what you could do, and the one thing you need... we do the matching.
Host a TapTapEvery TapTap here grows something... cassava flour, vetiver oil, cacao, breadfruit, honey. One day the whole network arrives at your door as a single thing: a box of Haiti, packed by the youth who made it, carrying the proof of what your sponsorship grew. It is not for sale yet. We are still building the TapTaps that fill it. But that is where all of this is going, and when it lands, you will have been the one who built it.
The Harvest Box · in development