CURRENT PROJECT

The project will improve key skills in literacy and numeracy and small business management for 4,000 women in Senmichel, Gonayiv, Gwomon, Janrabel, and Pòdpe regions of northern Haiti.

For this project, IDRF acknowledges the financial support of Fonkoze Santa Barbera.

CURRENT PROJECT
This project will train beneficiaries on vocational skills focusing on sewing, hand made products, and leather making to produce shoes and bags.

CURRENT PROJECT
This project will provide marginalized newcomer and refugee women with the training and skills necessary for sustainable employment, culminating in the establishment of a women’s sewing collective enterprise.

PLANNED ACTIVITIES:
This is a two-phase project. In Year 1, participants undertake an 8-month training in sewing skills, and receive instruction in business English and entrepreneurship, with the aim of enabling these women to pursue employment opportunities in tailoring and garment construction. Women who complete the program successfully and wish to work independently receive a sewing machine to make their business venture feasible. In Year 2, selected invited participants from year 1 complete a more rigorous training, and work together to develop an independent sewing collective business.

CURRENT PROJECT
This project aims to provide training on food preparation and distribution to un(der)employed, vulnerable Canadian newcomer women; to provide isolated newcomer seniors with access to healthy food; and to promote healthy nutrition for seniors in Toronto.