Client Stories
Fonkoze recently distributed 554 hygiene kits, with 27 kits going to our dedicated Community Health Entrepreneurs (CHEs). For many CHEs, this marked the first time they received a personal kit, creating a...
CLM Graduation: A Time of Pride and Joy Fonkoze USA’s Executive Director, Erlantz Hyppolite, recently traveled to Haiti to witness a transformative moment: the CLM graduation of 200 women. This video features...
Marie’s Story in Gwo Moulen Marie lives in Gwo Lyann, Haiti, a small neighborhood perched along the ridge that stretches eastward from Gwo Moulen towards Bwa Wouj, a market near the top...
Rosena Derima’s CLM Story in lower Northwest Haiti We’re sharing stories from the field. Accounts from Fonkoze CLM members as told by the staff in the field. This story is adapted from...
Fonkoze Foundation has operated in Haiti for the past 30 years. Executive Director, Carine Roenen, gives an update and shares information about the work of Fonkoze in Haiti and the context of...
Murline Gedeon, a 25-year-old woman entrepreneur, lives in a household of four, including her sister, husband, and stepson. The Problem: Murline Gedeon, a 25-year-old woman entrepreneur, lives in a household of four,...
Saincia Eric Tranquille Before Saincia met the case manager who would guide her through Fonkoze’s Chemen Lavi Miyò (Pathway to a Better Life), Saincia was living in ultra-poverty. “When it rained, I...
Kena Pierre Charles, a Fonkoze Community Health Entrepreneur with her Boutik Sante Kena Pierre Charles is also a successful Community Health Entrepreneur (CHE) that participates in Fonkoze’s Boutik Sante in Bainet,...
Elsie and Kervenson In 2013 and 2014, while Elsie was in the Fonkoze CLM program, the staff discovered an issue with her young son, Kervenson. He couldn’t attend school due to what...
A Fonkoze-empowered client for over eight years, Marie Yolène Néus from Sorel, Haiti, says, “With Fonkoze, I continue to grow personally and professionally. As a businesswoman, I’ve learned a great deal over...
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...