Mirlande Hector
Mirlande Hector is a Haitian agricultural engineer recently graduated from EARTH University in Costa Rica. Beginning on January 2016, she will make an internship at Purdue University, Indiana, USA, where she will put in practice the knowledge obtained at EARTH University. Mirlande has in her sights making a Master’s degree in agribusiness at Purdue beginning the second semester of 2016.
Mirlande’s commitment to Haiti is very strong. To this effect, she has developed a project based on the expansion of apiculture as an economic alternative in La Baleine, a locality in Fonds Blancs, where deforesting is the main activity of its inhabitants in order to obtain vegetable coal as energy source and financial sustenance. The expansion of apiculture in La Baleine will help keep a lasting and sustainable forest, where each living tree will increase more than tenfold both the tangible and intangible values than are otherwise obtained by chopping them down.
Mirlande believes that we are all single cells that together constitute the great body that is planet Earth. This is the reason why each of us has the obligation to take care of each other no matter what form of life we are dealing with, be it vegetable, animal or human. All of us together are evolving towards wellbeingness.