Finally, I made it back to Haiti after being gone for a year and a half. Some positve changes are evident. A new building at the guest house with lots of additional rempdeling taking place. New and completed projects at orphanges and at CONASPEH. I have also seen new buildings around the city springing up. Slowly but surely improvements are being made.
Some of the most impressive projects I have seen this trip have been the Aparent Project and Rebuild Globally.
Aparent helps children whp have been given away by their families or sold into slavery leave that life an.d develop skills and they sell their work intheir store. Jewelry, pottery, metal work and other items are all for sale produced by the students.
Rebuild globally is a business making sandals from old tires and old leather garments.
They employ 13 people currently at a living wage with benefits, on property in the Tabbare area of the city. One each pair of sandals there is the names of the maker and a little bit of their story. You can purchase the sandals online at www.rebuildglobally.org. This is a buisness model I feel it is important to support and some businesses in the USA could learn.
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