Proposal for Haitian Youth Technical Training Center by CEFOTAJ

= Fae eel el a on ee | Nb EF NY ITT AY Centre De Formation Technique Pour L’Avancement Des Jeunes Du Sud’Est Inc. Project Overview Description Haitian manufacturing has been well known in the world. As recently as the mid 1980's, Haiti was known as the staple for baseball production. After labor unrests occurred, corporations moved their operations out of Haiti to China and other countries. Haiti went from employing 150,000 workers in the textile industry to a current level of 20,000. Haiti occupies the lowest ranks in the world’s ranking among the countries. As a rule, the country is perceived as politically unstable, being subject to various natural disasters, and having increasing security problems. For example, the political difficulties related to the Presidential election had led to the suspension of funding for major infrastructure rehabilitation by most international and bilateral donors. The Centre de Formation Technique pour L’Avancement des Jeunes du Sud-est (CEFOTAJ) was created by members who trace their roots to the beautiful city known as Haiti’s cultural center to increase general awareness of the dangers facing idle young women and men. The city, a population of 60,000, is considered a major production center of arts and creativity and is determined by CEFOTAJ members as the ideal location to establish a trade school. In support of the Government of Haiti’s National Action Plan to produce centers of economic development outside the capital of Port-au-Prince, CEFOTAJ plans to ensure Haiti’s future development by bringing much needed training skills for the textile industry to support the creation of jobs to Haiti’s underserved regions. Based on our target group of attracting over 100 youths with 75 enrolling and being trained for the project, we have formulated a free association questionnaire that we would pose to individuals within the community in order to assess whether the community believes this avenue of job skill creation would be fruitful. The following questionnaire would be utilized to engage the community in open ended discussions about their future and viability of a successful training center: Survey Questionnaire A job training center in our community would Without a job I believe The textile industry in Haiti has I would like to occur in my community. The young people in the Jacmel community The establishment of a training center would seek to achieve the following goals; PO Box 666 Brentwood, NY 11717 © Phone (631) 273-4100 © Fax (631) 273-4111 © [email protected] © Wwww.cefotaj.org HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019455