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

While access to credit for women entrepreneurs in Haiti is scarce, the country is one of the worst for doing business. It ranks 182 out of 189 on the World Bank’s annual 2016 Doing Business ...

In the United States, women — better known as activators — make a $1,100 tax deductible contribution, which includes a $100 processing fee. Once a year, social impact, women-owned businesses ...

As the former President of the University of Miami, I was proud to help strengthen UM’s decades-long relationship with our neighbors in Haiti. Both before and after the devastating 2010 ...

Women in Cap Haitien, Haiti, pour melted beeswax at a candle-making workshop. ... Prosperity Catalyst identified 12 “apprentice entrepreneurs”, as they are called, ...

More than 6 months after the earthquake, Haitians -- and particularly Haitian women -- continue to struggle. Danielle St. Lot has held several positions in Haiti's government, and has spent much ...

1. The underestimation of productive potential among women is a major obstacle to the emergence of female entrepreneurs in Haiti. 2. It is difficult for women to access credit. 3. There is an issue of ...

After two years, I left Haiti burned out and broken. To top it all off, I received some distasteful parting words from shrewd businessman who asserted, that I would never be more than “an NGO ...

CROIX-DES-BOUQUETS, Haiti — Regine Theodat had just passed the bar exam and at 25 years old was beginning a promising, if predictable, career in U.S. corporate law. She went to work, to spin ...