The inaugural edition of the MHAIFEX Women’s Entrepreneurship Fair, held July 6–7, celebrated the creativity and work of ...

This week, Chelsea Clinton and I will travel to Haiti to see how the foundation’s programs and partners are empowering girls, women, and families through economic development and ...

Improving things for women in Haiti one ice-cream cone at a time (Courtesy of Alexis Gallivan) Plenty of us have dreamed about giving up corporate life to open something we love, like an ice-cream ...

World; January 9, 2014; Haiti’s Women Need More Than a Trickle of Aid Money Haiti’s Women Need More Than a Trickle of Aid Money. Preventing further sexual and economic violence will require a ...

A woman cooks at shelter for families displaced by gang violence, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, March 8, 2024. The violence as anti-government gangs battle police in the streets has crippled ...

Haiti became a classroom for more than a dozen RIT students when they worked with 19 women leaders from a nonprofit group in Haiti on projects that could become future businesses. ... Ekonomi (Economy ...

While they were embarking on a pilot program in Baghdad to help train women to make and sell candles, a massive earthquake struck Haiti in January 2010, killing an estimated 223,000 people.

The goal is to enable the women to run their operation as a full-fledged business. They will buy and sell locally produced grain throughout the year, rather than just seasonally; and during lean times ...

Socio-economic indicators continue to plummet. At least 4.97 million Haitians are acutely food insecure; ... And, as elsewhere in the world, Haiti’s women have long demonstrated why.

Aid organizations in Haiti should heed the lessons learned from the earthquake response in 2010, including how best to help women, ... Moreover, many women, the backbone of the informal economy, ...

World; February 6, 2012; Two Years After Haiti’s Earthquake, Women Are Still Shattered by Sexual Exploitation Two Years After Haiti’s Earthquake, Women Are Still Shattered by Sexual Exploitation ...

Reporting from Mexico City — Nearly 20 months after Haiti’s devastating earthquake, women and girls have been badly neglected in recovery efforts, subjected to sexual violence and left without ...