Haiti Partner
Fonkoze in Haiti
Partner Since: 2016
Total Support Provided: $241,720
Current Funds Granted: $33,330
Nearly half of Haiti’s population is experiencing acute hunger due to a record-breaking food shortage triggered by drought, global shortages, rising gas prices, inflation, escalating gang violence, and natural disasters. WE contributes to Fonkoze’s vision working toward a Haiti where people, standing together, have pulled themselves out of poverty. WE funding supports Fonkoze’s award-winning health program, Boutik Sante. Our funding supports training and the purchase of supplies so women microfinance clients are able to become Community Health Entrepreneurs (CHEs), conducting basic health screenings and education sessions and selling health products for additional income in their communities.
The Challenge
As the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, increased access to health care services and products is urgently needed in Haiti, especially in rural areas. Our partner in Haiti, Fonkoze, is the country’s largest microfinance organization assisting women. Since 2016, WE is proud to have partnered with Fonkoze to support the Community Health Store (Boutik Sante) project.
The Program
The Boutik Sante project recruits and trains women entrepreneurs to provide basic health services and supplies in some of Haiti’s most remote and impoverished rural areas. Since a successful pilot project in 2013-2014, Boutik Sante has expanded to train 715 women entrepreneurs, who as of October 2017 have provided increased access to health services and products for approximately 976,169 people. These women “Community Health Entrepreneurs” (CHEs) receive training in basic health care screening and help in setting up small health stores that provide affordable health services and supplies. WE’s initial contribution in 2016 of $30,000 helped fund the training of these community health entrepreneurs. WE also funded an additional $4,270 for Hurricane Matthew disaster relief-targeting cholera prevention. In 2017, WE is funding the Onboarding and Orientation training costs of new CHE enrollees, in addition to stocking their health-product baskets and catalogs
Program Goal
Train 1,800 women entrepreneurs who will serve over 4 million underserved Haitians by 2020.
Meet our Women in Haiti
Elie | Haiti
Elie S., a resident of Port-Margot in Haiti, is a devoted mother of four – three boys and a girl....
Carinne | Haiti
Carinne from Haiti When a woman rises, the world changes Since 1994, Carinne has owned a small but...
Marlene | Haiti
Marlene N., Community Health Entrepreneur (CHE) Marlene is a single mother who works hard to...