Who We Are at FONDATION AVENIR

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Fondation Avenir is a Haitian Non-Profit Corporation formed in 2005 with the Mission of Improving the Capacity of the Haitian Workforce.

Our mission is to bring together the worlds of business, education and industry, joined around common goals to improve the capacity of the Haitian Workforce – Training for the Benefit of Individuals and Society as a whole, thus building a workforce with the capabilities needed to excel in the marketplace.  We specially seek to making a positive impact on the lives of those living in poverty. This is why we work in the strictest integrity for, and respect of, the values we advocate.

  To address the needs of our primary constituency, we provide our Foundation Avenir Team Members with:

· Access to basic health information. 

· Basic education, training, mentoring and project implementation of project microfinance as basic tools for their survival.

· Intervention in marginalized communities to facilitate the strengthening of community organizational structures in the support for development actions.

· THE REHABILITATION OF CARREFOUR'S FLAGSHIP STORE. 

When the Flagship Store in Carrefour closed its doors, the property—vacant and abandoned—quickly deteriorated and became an eyesore where a beautiful retail store had formerly been.

Fondation Avenir approached the elderly owner and offered to rescue the store from decline by neglect. The Carrefour Community stepped in and donated materials, loaned tools and equipment, and Fondation Avenir marshalled underemployed workers to learn construction skills by learning by doing. Pulling the community together, Fondation Avenir applied for grants to pay the workers an acceptable wage that they received while learning the construction business—Learning By Doing.

Soon the store was restored to good commercial condition and was put back into commerce—while building value in the local workforce.

· REDUCING VIOLENCE AND CREATING URBAN EMPLOYMENT IN HAITI THROUGH COMMUNITY CYBER CENTRES (C3).

Fondation Avenir developed this Project with the objective of increasing the basic literacy and literacy skills of out-of-school youth, through job creation and the development of methods of reducing their implications in the strife.

Using the Learning by Doing Model described above, within a 12-month period, Fondation Avenir’s C3 Project created a Flagship Cyber Center and three (3) cyber cyber community centers. 

The project began with the creation of a community cyber center followed by the Flagship Cyber Center. The success of these first two components was leveraged to fund the success of two additional Cyber Community Centres—to the delight of the community provided affordable new cyber access, and the workers trained in building renovation and rehabilitation, based on Fondation Avenir’s Learning by Doing methodology.