Programs: INDEPCO
Announced:
July 7, 2010
Category:
Facilitating Job Training & Workforce Development
Fund Amount: $245,000 Grant
Disbursed to Date: $245,000
Learn more about the important role INDEPCO
plays for garment workers across the country.
See more in the INDEPCO Photo Gallery.
With support from the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, INDEPCO rebuilt its headquarters and expanded its production and training capacity, enabling small-scale garment workshops that were damaged in the earthquake to resume production. This provided an injection of working capital to the INDEPCO network of over 600 ateliers.
With help from grants from the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, INDEPCO completed its repair work and began using its facilities in February 2011. INDEPCO produced 44,000 school uniforms for Haitian schoolchildren. The uniform order engaged approximately 70 ateliers and 600 workers from and around Port-au-Prince, including several workers in Jacmel, Gonaive, Petit Goave, Saint Marc, and Leogane.
Why We Invested in INDEPCO
Clinton Bush Haiti Fund's grant to INDEPCO reflects our commitment to creating economic opportunity and job growth by restarting, expanding and creating micro- and small-sized businesses.
Transforming Lives and Livelihoods
- Rebuilt INDEPCO’s headquarters building, expanding production and training capacity.
- Injected working capital into the INDEPCO network of 600 ateliers enabling it to complete an order for 40,000 school uniforms.
- Enabled small-scale garment workshops to resume production.
- Funded a marketing campaign to increase visibility and to secure new orders.
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. Visit INDEPCO's site at www.indepco.org.ht.
