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• NEWS_POSTED_BY: Haiti Place
• NEWS_POSTED_ON: Aug 05, 2015
• Views : 544
• Category : Haiti News
• Description : Haiti Libre
  30/07/2015 08:37:00
• Location : Haiti
• Website : http://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-14674-haiti-economy-launching-of-a-social-economy-program-in-haiti.html

Overview

• Development and Peace is launching a new social economy program with its partners in Haiti. The program brings together a dozen local organizations that are receiving support and funding from Development and Peace to set up social enterprises that range from poultry farms to mango production and community bakeries.
  
  The aim of this innovative initiative is to reduce poverty and increase agricultural production for local consumption, which will improve food security. At the same time, these new businesses will enable the organizations involved to ensure their own funding and break the cycle of donor dependence. This new initiative is the final component of post-earthquake reconstruction program implemented by Development and Peace.
  
  A dozen local organizations took part recently in a training seminar on socially-oriented business enterprises in the 21st century. The seminar, which was organized in collaboration with Group Croissance, enabled those launching social enterprises supported by Development and Peace to learn more about the community-oriented nature of these types of businesses, their operations and management techniques, as well as the conditions to make them sustainable.
  
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