1. The organization :

 

Holistic Action for the transformation of Haiti (H.A.T- HAITI) is a non profit organization incorporated in Miami Florida  in December 2016 whose vision consists to impact the live of people in needs and low income groups and associations in the fields of Education, Agriculture, Microfinance and Health care. H.A.T-HAITI will work mainly with grassroots associations and groups in the middle and low classes in Haiti in order to improve the life conditions of different communities through a participative approach.

 

The strategy is based primarily on financial and vocational education, on economic initiatives targeting job creation, business empowerment and on social integration with both involvements in rural communities and civil society. This approach will lead us to an improvement of the human capital available, by giving access to a higher technical education, in technical and management fields, and also increase their own value on the working places. Small and medium enterprises will have a great source of skilled labors for their expansion and to address their challenges.

H.A.T-HAITI, intends also to enforce the productive infrastructure, with notably, providing adequate space for the second level of production.

That will take place through the industrial micro parks that will be offered to the SMEs.
 

1. The program

 

The H.A.T-HAITI program is articulated in Haiti around 5 components:

 

1. Microfinance for about 10,000 micro and small enterprises;

2. Agricultural and industrial platform production, including

   • Agricultural production: corn, peanut, moringa, cassava, and lime-lemon in Central Region

   • Fishing platform with maritime and on-land infrastructure in Northern and Southern region, from fishing to industrial process

   • Poultry chain in the north region including fertile eggs production, feeding production, industrial process and social network for women involved in the poultry meat market.

   • Industrial micro-park with capacity to process and integrate all the agricultural production, and provide logistic, administrative, managerial and market support.

3. Technical and vocational school to offer education and work perspective to the youth and provide skilled work force to all SMEs of the program and others SMEs all over the country.

4. Housing project :  to lodge  workforce,  technical staff,  middle class and  all the owners of the SMEs partners, and others in the Country.

5. Humanitarian initiative targeting specially disabled persons, vulnerable women in popular areas and rural community development.

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Frank and Liz BLAKE are the first donors of H.A.T-Haiti. With their donation, H.A.T has secured a place of 12.5  acres of land on which we have planted Moringa, peanuts and beans.

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