Access to Health in Hard-to-Reach Areas
Aug 2021 – Fonkoze’s health program is making considerable strides in remote regions across the country by providing households in these areas access to much-needed health services, products and education. Facilitating mass screenings for malnourished children is one impactful way the organization is addressing critical health issues faced by families with little to no access […] Read More
Empowering CLM’s Youth to Thrive
Aug 2021 – Fonkoze’s CLM (Chemen Lavi Miyò or Pathway to a Better Life) program has empowered thousands of rural women living in the most extreme poverty (ultra-poverty) with the life skills tools, training and close accompaniment needed to break the cycle of poverty and plan for a better future. The program has recently added […] Read More
Carinne Cadet
Since 1994, Carinne Cadet has owned a small but profitable clothing business, buying used clothes from Malpasse, a Haitian-Dominican border town, and then selling them in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. This business, that she worked for years to build and grow, came to a halt when the devastating earthquake hit Haiti on January 12, 2010. In an […] Read More
Chelene Belamour
Chelene Belamour lives in Paulette, a small village near the northeast coast of Haiti. Before becoming a Fonkoze-empowered micro-entrepreneur, Chelene had fallen into ultra-poverty (the most extreme form) due to two unfortunate events: the death of her mother and her son breaking his leg. The funeral costs and medical fees, respectively, were all it took […] Read More
Odette Midi, Community Health Entrepreneur
Until now, the nearest place to buy over-the-counter health products was more than an hour away from people living in Odette Midi’s community near La Vallée-de-Jacmel, Haiti. It meant that rather than making the long trek by foot, Odette’s friends and neighbors would occasionally risk letting illnesses and wounds go untreated. As a result, illnesses […] Read More
Anthonise Jean-Michel
Anthonise Jean-Michel wants nothing more than to be able to provide a good life for her 5- year-old son, so that he will be able to create a promising future of his own one day. Unfortunately, her former position as a kindergarten teacher did not allow her to do this. “It was difficult to get […] Read More
Anne Marie Albert
Anne Marie Albert has been a Fonkoze-empowered Ti Machann (Market Woman) for over 25 years – nearly the entirety of the organization’s existence. Throughout the years, Anne Marie has made much progress and has learned a great deal about what she is capable of achieving. Prior to joining Fonkoze’s core micro-lending program, Solidarity, she and […] Read More
Mobile Therapeutic Feeding Clinics Address Child Malnutrition
Through our USAID/AKSYON (Community Health Action for Improving Nutrition) program, sets up mobile therapeutic feeding clinics in hard-to-reach rural areas in Haiti to treat malnourished children and mothers. These areas are where clinics are either nonexistent or so poorly equipped that they cannot serve as adequate referral facilities. Since this began in August 2016, Fonkoze […] Read More
