Haiti’s native son Wyclef Jean is going back to the well to uplift his country yet again.  He has launched a new program called “Together For Haiti,” to raise $48 million over the next six months to create jobs, and provide assistance for poor farms in hopes to expand the countries food distribution problems.

“Together For Haiti” plans to employ 1,800 people a day in poor areas, distribute food to 1.5 million people and provide fertilizers to 55,000 farmers. Grants will also be given to 9,000 families to support the development of micro-enterprises.  In Haiti the average daily salary is $2.

The new initiative was announced Tuesday in response to last month’s deadly food riots in which six people were killed during a week of violent protests against rising food and fuel costs in Haiti.  Wyclef has recruited the help of the World Food Program, the Pan American Development Foundation and his own Yele Haiti charitable foundation to help support the program.

“We are not only interested in feeding people in response to the current crisis, but we want to offer them an alternative that can help them in a sustainable way,” Clef said during the press conference.

“We want to give them the opportunity to set up a small business which they can live on instead of assisting them every time there is a crisis,” Jean later told Reuters.

Good Work ‘Clef