By Cherie Miot Abbanat | CEO
In April, Haiti Projects hired an all-women consulting team IDEO (Institution de Development Personnel et Organisationnel) to visit Fond des Blancs to conduct an employee training workshop with the women artisans. All of the artisans were invited to share thoughts about themselves, their work for Haiti Projects, and how Haiti Projects is doing as their employer. We asked the IDEO team to try to focus on what we can do to improve the working environment. Many women offered suggestions including, build a new workshop that they could call their own (House of Haiti Projects), increase the flow of steady work, avoiding fewer emergency orders, and bring in more innovative designs. The artisans also shared their personal priorities. Interestingly, the women say they are saving funds to: 1. Educate their children, 2. send their grown children to Brazil for work, 3. buy a motorcycle and, 4. improve and repair their homes. In other words, they value education, work, transportation and home improvements, not much different from most of us!
These workshops are supported by our donors help us improve the lives of artisans, by building capaicity, community, providing us with feedback, and by educating the women about future possiblites.
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