Fair World Builders

Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the world, and the poorest in the America. Two third of the populations are jobless. Since 1980 with the Structural Adjustment Plan of the International Monetary Fund, Free market bankrupts so many small businesses. Our project aims to tackle the problems of poverty in remote communities at Terrier-Rouge in Haiti by supporting small businesses, creating jobs, and providing technological and professional skills to young people so that they can pursue their dream regardless of the breathtaking competition in the world. Our solution can change lives globally because it takes into account what young people already have potentially in their communities like sea for pisciculture, land for agriculture and animals to produce meats in the country. It will shape their vision and empower them to be local changers. It is a self-economic-development program.

We are  going to solve is unemployment. By that we mean, young people who lose hopes in the future because nothing works in their inner city areas. At Terrier-Rouge, a district in Northeast of Haiti with around 50 thousands of citizens, the unique choice for young people lies in emigration. Four fifth of them are jobless. In Haiti, poverty and unemployment are national issues with 80% of the population under the threshold of poverty. These problems affect, of course, some parts of the American region where life appears gloom and doom for so many young men and women. But, it is not as high as it is in Haiti. What makes the specificity of Haiti is because, as first black independent nation in the World, the government turned people in remote communities around. Those with the power never use it to strengthen less fortunate people. By the same token, they create a vicious circle that encompasses these communities in bad shape and exclusion for centuries. As a consequence, between those on the top and those on the abasement, there is a dumb dialogue with sometimes disastrous damages: social unrest, economic disaster, mass incarceration and human rights violations.

In Haiti, there are constant demands for meats like cattle, farm animals and so forth. These demands create a shift of import meats. Our solution plans to support  farms of young people in Terrier-Rouge that will create jobs and opportunities for them and furnish Haiti with meats, milks, fishes, chicken, cow…  We'll allow them to use leathers of these cattle to create some cultural products to be sold at a national and international level. Technology is a fundamental tool for entrepreneurs in our modern world that’s why we have a solemn obligation to provide these skills to young people. We will create some websites to promote their products and broaden their customers. They will be initiated to internet because according to the Human Development Report in 2019 of UNDP, effective access to present-day technologies is one of the four keys achievements to enhance capabilities. The most useful technologies in Haiti are apps like: Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter. By creating pages and websites, we are going to increase their performance. In the end, we are going to provide skills on Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint in order to lift them up to a new scale of management. 

Our solution serves the most vulnerable part of the population: young people in Terrier-Rouge. Every year, so many in this rural area leave it to emigrate to another part in the world. They believe that any place is better than Haiti. Sometimes, they sell cattle and other goods of their family to pay a trip or nail. Arriving abroad for those who arrived because some of them lose their lives on the sea, they face so many challenges with the police or because of the color of their skin. Some of them don’t spend a lot of time to go back home. All this money wasted for nothing deepens their poverty.

The solution we provide here will change their lives in several ways. By creating jobs, providing skills and mentorship to these young people, we'll give them a new option instead of emigrating by boat which can shipwreck in high sea or pay an illegal trip with incalculable effects. They will be able to cope with the free market. They will be heard by governments and other people inside the country. They will be able to participate in the political process and contribute to the progress of their country

Our challenge is to tackle unemployment among young people in Terrier-Rouge. By selecting enable small and new businesses, we embrace our beliefs, knowledge and know-how that in remotes communities young people can do better and can be better. By selecting this dimension, we position ourselves in the process that ordinary people can do extraordinary things when they have opportunities and capabilities to do so.  The problem of unemployment can be solved by creating jobs and strengthening young entrepreneurs’ businesses. The population of Terrier-Rouge is an untapped category in the eyes of the government. Our project takes into account these steps.

In Haiti, there are so many institutions trying to come up with solutions against poverty. They always fail in their method. Sometimes, it is because of their lack of knowledge about local priorities or what people have the ability to do. Our solution is innovative because it takes into account what people already have in the grassroots. It is not something we come from another place and then try to impose local communities our views. It is a solution that has local community in all aspects. By choosing to create jobs for young people in the community of Terrier-Rouge while empowering young people’s businesses, we strengthen something that community already sees as a priority. In Terrier-Rouge, people are living of agriculture, farm animal and fishing. For these three areas, we are going to create a mentoring team. This mentorship will help young people create their business plan, correct what needs to be corrected and go farther.

Before this work, young people were left by their own selves to achieve goals. With our approach, any failure is a team failure, and for any failure, we will learn how to prevent it quickly, isolate it quickly and respond to it quickly. By that, we believe that a new technological and business revolution can happen in Haiti, not through brutality or social strife but by empowering those who deserve our attention.

The core technology that powers our solution is using social network like: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, WhatsApp and LinkedIn. In Haiti, these apps are more likely used by young people. Facebook is the most useful social network among young people in Haiti. By showing them how to create a page for their business on Facebook to promote it, by providing skills about how to get followers on Twitter, or the way to create a channel on YouTube that could promote their business, young people will get a better pave to shift their productivity.  WhatsApp is a tool one can use to keep contact with customers. They can use it to stay connected with other people who deserve to get their product.

In this modern world, no entrepreneurs couldn’t achieve success if it has no a minimum knowledge on managing Excel, PowerPoint and Microsoft Word because they are tools to use for any presentation before a large public. We are going to initiate them with the internet and how to look for information on them and the way to prevent hackers. By this way, we think that our mission will reach the goals that it is made for that are to provide jobs to the jobless and increase productivity of small business of young people. 

So many people in Haiti use these technologies in business or in politics in order to reach people throughout this country. Some big enterprise like Delimart use Facebook to sell its products and make sure that people know what they are doing. This is evidence in business. We are sharing a link below with you.

Some public personalities in politics use Facebook in order to share their vision of a new Haiti. Some big protestations have been started on social network of Facebook where young people protest for justice and trapping corruption. This network has a huge power of mobilization in Haiti. That’s why, now people don’t even use radio or TV to get informed, every radio creates a Facebook and a YouTube Channel just to get followers with whom they can share their thoughts or vision of what’s happening in the country.

What we want needs to be sustainable. By our view, any great institution in Haiti makes sure that their team can use PowerPoint, Excel or Microsoft Word to do and keep important data about what they are doing. And to make a business plan, it is not enough to get an idea or a Facebook account. It’s a work that requires commitments, thoughts and discussion. All these steps need to be fold in a folder and be taken when needed. Lumos Foundation, Remember Haiti, Save the Children international and Plan International Haiti use these tools.

Our theory of change only promotes that young people in their local communities can do extraordinary things when they have access to do so. Our theory focuses on a statement that, to change a community, we need to change the mindset of people who are living inside of it. We need to lift them up into a new level of Humanity, we need to make sure that we provide them with the tools they need to do change, and provide what the economist Amartya Sen called capability. After doing so, we are going to awake them by making them feel a deep desire for change. That is why we are so focused on the capacity building theory because we believe that this building can change lives more than if we start doing thing in a matter that local community and young leaders don’t understand.

Throughout this process, young people will learn how to use these tools but most importantly why they are using it because sometimes, even in our educational system, we are taught things with no explanation about why they are teaching. That’s why our theory of change consists of teaching, learning and acting. That means, while taking the course, young people will start to initiate in what the course ask them to do in their daily activity.

At the end of our program, we do expect that the local community of Terrier-Rouge in which they are living will be better. By better we mean, they will be able to participate in the political process and achieve some biggest progress. They will be able to create jobs for those who are jobless. Young people will not be spent their life trying to beg any other families overseas to feed themselves and their families because they are going to have access to jobs. By better we mean young people will not ought to emigrate in another country in order to make a living. Here in their own country, they will be able to make a difference. 

Our solution is currently serve 500 young people in different fields with different backgrounds. We are going to serve at the beginning 500 most important leaders, those who show their strong desire, ability and audacity to make a change at Terrier-Rouge. All these young men will receive empowerment through skills sessions to be better. After their introduction in their enterprise or strengthening in what they already have, we are going to monitor a duplication of what they have learned to others. That is why we expect to reach 2 500 people families. Each young will support five others.

My goals within the next year are to create hope in the lives of young people by providing them with the skills and tools they need to pursue their individual dream. I want to see their business flourishes in a way that they get money and self-esteem enough to live decently. I want to reach a degree where farm animals produce meats, milks, cheese, and with the hides of animals, young people produce some crafts to sell at a national and an international level. I want to see happiness in the face of young peasant because they reap what they sow, and what they have in return is enough to be saved.

Within the next five years, I want to see an independent community with a new status from remote to normal community in which young people choose to live in a peaceful way. I want to see parents don’t try to ask their sons to emigrate by any means. I want to see everyone has a house and get jobs to live in a decent way.

The barriers that exist lie on the fact that social strife, political instability can cause so many damages to local enterprise. Any time a group of protestors run around the streets to claim their rights, sometime these protestations end up with brutality, vandalism and any other form of violence against small businesses and property.

The other barrier is climate change because there is a problem of water in Haiti. The seasons that we had over the past few years are changed in a new unpredictable way. Climate change puts hundreds and hundreds people in a bad shape.

Natural disaster is a great problem in Haiti. Flood, hurricane and earthquakes are repeated in Haiti. In 2010, an earthquake makes more than 300 000 deaths. That’s why millions of young people in Haiti are living with a single-parent family or are raised through the street because some many old men and women with responsibilities have passed away. Every year, flood and hurricane devastate so many spaces reserved to agriculture, and put in death so many animals.

The last barrier is to get funds because without money, nothing is possible in the field of empowerment

All these issues are profound and required specific solutions. 

To overcome these barriers, we are going to secure to monitor spaces most vulnerable in the period of floods and hurricane. We are going to make sure that government takes some drastic measures to irrigate the land and canalize waters that could benefits farmers after the period of rain. To prevent erosion, we are going to plant so many big trees that could deal with the flood and the hurricane.

Earthquake always have great impact on the lives of Haitian families. To prevent these dreadful natural even or flatten the curve of its damages, we are going to map the region and put aside any place in which earthquake has usually as epicenter. We will divert from these places to some places more relevant or convenient to our farm animals and cattle.

We are going to follow the meteor in every season in order to know how to prevent catastrophe and drive animals and cattle in a new place under danger. 

For the fund, we are going to look for grants from some NGOs or donors

60 people work on my solution team

We have a Full-time staff of 20 brilliant young people

We have a Part-time staff with  10 young people

We also have other workers of 30 young people. they are volunteers who devoted themselves into the same cause.

My team has knowledge to realize such a project because we are a group of students from different universities in Haiti. Most of that, some of us are from this place, e.g. Terrier-Rouge. 

Because of our work with Plan International, an NGO with the mission to support children and youth and make sure that their rights can be respected, we understand youth aspirations and the reasons of their desolation. We understand their suffering because we too are in the same boat. When we are writing about young people in Haiti and their poverty, we are not out of that poverty, it shapes us, it surrounds us in every part of our lives.

Our experiences show us that any young man or woman, regardless their place of birth or the color of their skin, can be extraordinary if we provide them with the tools and opportunities they need to achieve their passion.

Our knowledge, our know-how and our experiences put us in the best position to do that. most importantly we are part of young people, we are young people. They seem like us, we seem like them. They speak through us, we speak through them. No one in the world, no other institution can give the result that we aspire to give. 

To achieve our goals we create partnership with some NGOs in the grassroots like Sonje Ayiti. Sonje Ayiti or Remember haiti support s our work by providing money and some other materials.

Plan International support our work by providing formation and skills to empower young people. 

To sustain our work, we expect  grants at one hand, we expect selling products and services at the other hand. Because our project is focused on empowering young people in remote communities. After being empowered, they will be able to support the project to go farther because they will get enough money to do that. 

And because we will sell our products and services, this project will be able to fund itself by producing its own income. 

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Sonje Ayiti

Plan International

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