The CEI Model fundamentally disrupts the cycle of poverty through a unique community-led, relationship-building process — addressing and solving problems of social injustice, and civic disenfranchisement. Our bottom-up process:

  • Assures equity and equal opportunity
  • Overcomes obstacles of corruption, inefficiencies or ineptitudes
  • Builds economic stability and essential skills

We are currently working with over 500 families in 10 villages in rural Haiti.

CEI’s Economic Prosperity Initiatives

CEI is currently working with over 500 families in 10 villages in rural Haiti.

We facilitate the growth and expansion of local economies through programs that build individual prosperity, capacity and well-being, including:

Goats for Prosperity

Sustainable Agriculture

Financial Education

Goats for Prosperity

CEI provides goats and training to give families a foothold for economic security and prosperity. Families return a baby goat to grow the program, equally investing all in outcomes.

Program Benefits:

  • Provides both income & protein
  • Enables farmers to save for emergencies
  • Becomes self-perpetuating
  • Empowers through self-responsibility
  • Builds communal prosperity

The program is 100% lead and implemented by local Haitian experts.

Goat Training and Distribution

Sustainable Agriculture Initiative

CEI addresses issues of malnutrition, lack of agricultural resources and training, and depleted soil to reinvigorate communities and improve health and economic stability.

Program Benefits:

  • Provides nutrition & essential farming skills
  • Restores depleted soil & educates about environment
  • Creates community-wide co-ops
  • Give-back of seeds by beneficiaries perpetuates growth at little cost
  • Locally-established nurseries provide seedlings to all
  • Communal effort creates self-sustaining enterprise

The program is 100% lead and implemented by local Haitian experts.

Teknik Peyzan, made as part of a CEI sponsored agriculture training. This video is now used throughout Haiti to demonstrate this technique for growing crops in the dry season.

Financial Education Programs

CEI addresses lack of financial planning skills and resources in rural Haiti. Our work with farming groups builds upon their centuries-old cooperative traditions in ways that develop necessary leadership and local structure while fostering sustainable prosperity.

  • Micro-business financial education
  • Locally-established micro-savings groups
  • Agri-business skill training for women
  • Farming Co-operatives

The program is 100% lead and implemented by local Haitian experts.