Literacy for Women Business Owners in Haiti

Summary

This project provides thousands of women microfinance clients with basic literacy training and the opportunity to learn business skills, as well as health and human rights education. progress report read updates from the field

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More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Fonkoze is committed to accompany Haitian women and their families out of poverty and improve the quality of their life through loans and literacy training. Fonkoze serves women throughout all departments of Haiti, including many difficult to reach rural areas.

Activities

Three month literacy modules are offered covering basic literacy, business skills, and health education, including disease prevention and HIV/AIDS. Participants learn to read and write while learning ways to improve their businesses and health.

Funding Information

This project has been retired and is no longer accepting donations.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

This project provides literacy modules for 3600 women to obtain the necessary skills to build their businesses and support their families. In addition, it helps create the economic foundation for a strong democratic society in Haiti.

Project Message

We believe you can't just give a woman a loan and send her own her way. You must accompany her as she struggles out of poverty. Fonkoze is a lasting institution for the poor that does this.
- Fr. Joseph Philippe, Founder

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Leigh Carter,
Executive Director
50 F Street, NW
Suite 810
Washington,DC 20001
United States
202-628-9033
Email:

Project Sponsor

GlobalGiving

Organisation

Fonkoze USA
50 F Street, NW Suite 810
Washington, DC 20001
United States
202-628-9033
http://www.fonkoze.org

Learn more about Fonkoze USA and the project team.

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Haiti and can also be found under Economic Development.

For more information about Haiti, read the Human Development Report on Haiti or the Wikipedia entry for Haiti.

Latest Update from the Field

Fonkoze's Business Skills Training at the Gonaives Credit Center.

By Steve Werlin - Director of Education, September 10, 2007 04:31 PM

A member of the Business Skills Class Iliana wants to take all the classes Fonkoze can offer: Health Education, Environmental Protection, and Children’s Rights. “If there are things about Fonkoze’s programs I don’t like, I haven’t found them yet.”

Attachments:

Iliana.Gonaives 8.29.07.doc (DOC)

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