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Photographs from Helvetas Haiti’s fourth annual open home on trades and careers in Camp-Perrin seize how younger Haitians are studying trades, pitching concepts and making ready for work and entrepreneurship regardless of financial hardship.
CAMP-PERRIN, Haiti — Over 100 younger Haitians gathered in Camp-Perrin this month for the fourth version of nonprofit Helvetas Haiti’s Open Home on Commerce and Employment, recognized by its French acronym JPOME. The occasion introduced collectively college students, artisans, entrepreneurs and institutional leaders to advertise vocational coaching, entrepreneurship and pathways to employment.
Held Dec. 13 at Le Recul Residence amid rising unemployment and restricted alternatives, JPOME 2025 created a uncommon house for younger individuals—particularly girls—to showcase their technical and creative skills, join with professionals, and envision sustainable futures rooted in work and innovation.
The initiative, organized in partnership with the Liechtenstein Medicor Foundation as a part of a vocational coaching and improvement venture referred to as PROFESE, aimed to bridge the hole between coaching and employment by highlighting work-study packages and showcasing the technical and creative expertise of venture beneficiaries from a number of technical and commerce colleges throughout the South and Southeast departments. By exhibitions, panel discussions and networking classes, contributors explored alternatives to show sensible expertise into sustainable livelihoods.
A number of panel classes centered on entrepreneurship and workforce improvement have been led by professionals, together with PROFESE’s coordinator Kerby Fleurant, entrepreneur Amisial Ledix, administration advisor Hébert Lahatte and journalist-entrepreneur Valéry Numa.
Addressing the viewers, Numa urged younger individuals to put money into studying a commerce and to domesticate an entrepreneurial mindset. “In entrepreneurship, you want each aptitude and angle to achieve new heights,” he stated, encouraging contributors to nurture their ambitions and seize alternatives.
Lahatte emphasised the significance of constructing viable, socially responsive companies. “We should resolve to alter in an effort to adapt, and even anticipate change, as a result of the world is consistently evolving,” he stated. “Wealth lies in work and entrepreneurship, and in partnering with competent and moral professionals.”
In the course of the discussion board, Helvetas additionally honored 20 younger individuals from the area who received the Regional Entrepreneurship for Employment Competitors, with totally different group winners receiving checks for 100,000 gourdes every, about $770. The group’s nationwide director, Jean-Christophe Gousseau, welcomed the robust participation of younger individuals, notably girls, and inspired them to put money into vocational coaching as a pillar of nationwide improvement.
Esnord Ridoré, a consultant of the Affiliation of Development Technicians (ATECO), highlighted the significance of skills-based schooling. “Whenever you assist an adolescent in studying a commerce, you’re giving them a future,” he stated. “With out a commerce, it’s as if every part stops.”
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Jean-Christophe Gousseau, nationwide coordinator of Helvetas Haiti, addressing civil society and public leaders at Helvetas Haiti’s Open Home on Commerce and Employment in Camp-Perrin on Dec. 13, 2025, and inspiring them to put money into vocational coaching as a pillar of nationwide improvement. Picture by Danise Davide Lejustal for The Haitian Instances. -
Hébert Lahatte, a administration advisor, speaks throughout Helvetas Haiti’s Open Home on Commerce and Employment discussion board in Camp-Perrin on Dec. 13, 2025. Picture: Danise Davide Lejustal for The Haitian Instances. -
Journalist-entrepreneur Valéry Numa speaks on entrepreneurship at Helvetas Haiti’s Open Home on Commerce and Employment discussion board in Camp-Perrin on Dec. 13, 2025. Picture by Danise Davide Lejustal for The Haitian Instances. -
Kerby Fleurant, venture coordinator of Helvetas Haiti, speaks throughout Helvetas Haiti’s Open Home on Commerce and Employment discussion board in Camp-Perrin on Dec. 13, 2025. Picture by Danise Davide Lejustal for The Haitian Instances.
By initiatives corresponding to JPOME, Helvetas Haiti goals to strengthen youth employability and entrepreneurship and foster collaboration amongst establishments dedicated to constructing sustainable financial alternatives in southern Haiti.
The next pictures doc moments of studying, trade and dedication, as contributors offered trades starting from development and crafts to enterprise improvement, underscoring how expertise coaching stays a crucial lever for youth empowerment and native improvement in southern Haiti.
