INDEPCO

Grant announced: July 7, 2010
Grant amount: $245,000
Location: Port-au-Prince
Key Partners: Multilateral Investment Fund of the Inter-American Development Bank

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The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund awarded a grant to INDEPCO to rebuild and restore its extensive network of garment micro-entrepreneurs in Haiti. INDEPCO was hard hit by the earthquake, including the destruction of its headquarters building and 10% of its network of ateliers (workshops). INDEPCO is the largest network of micro-entrepreneurs in Haiti's garment sector, with 600 workshops and nearly 7,000 workers in 32 cities throughout Haiti.


INDEPCO ateliers sew uniforms for Haitian school children.

Transforming Lives and Livelihoods
With support from the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, INDEPCO will:

  • Rebuild INDEPCO's headquarters building, expanding production and training capacity.
  • Enable small-scale garment workshops that were damaged in the earthquake to resume production.
  • Provide an injection of working capital to the INDEPCO network of 600 ateliers to enable it to complete an order for 40,000 school uniforms, thereby providing two months of employment for nearly 1,000 workers.
  • Provide funding for a marketing campaign to secure new orders.


President Bush congratulates a trainee at INDEPCO

About INDEPCO
Founded in 1992, INDEPCO is the largest network of garment micro-entrepreneurs in Haiti. It is a Haitian non-profit organization that has successfully trained its members to execute contracts for over one million uniforms, service aprons, and school bags for customers such as the Ministry of Education, DIGICEL (mobile phone provider), SogeXpress (a banking institution), the UN Mission in Haiti, and others. INDEPCO's headquarters in Port-au-Prince secures bulk sewing orders and distributes pre-cut fabric to network of over 600 small scale ateliers.


                                            INDEPCO's headquarters in Port-au-Prince