OPADBAC, Zoranje (Orangers)

Zoranger is home to an active community organization called OPADBAC, which is working to improve its community by keeping the streets clean, the mountains forested, and its neighbors educated and literate.

Zoranger is in the commune of Jacmel, and is an agricultural community. In 2007, a group of young people from the area founded OPADBAC (Organisation of Peasants for the Development of Cap Wouj) with a vision of developing their community.

OPADBAC works in a number of different areas: because their community is an agricultural one, they use konit to help each other in their gardens, and have a tree nursery to prepare saplings for the farmers to plant in the mountains to reforest their community. They are working to capture a spring on the mountain to help provide their community with a source of water, and have volunteer cleaning committees to keep their area clean and healthy.  They also work in the area of eduaction: OPADBAC has been managing a community school since 2007 (although this school has existed since the 1950s) with its members serving as professors, and have a literacy school for adults who want to learn to read and write. They recently partnered with an organisation named CROSE to develop 3 public parks with solar lamps, and they use the space to show films and have other educational events.