Hopeline has been connected with the Partners Worldwide network and has grown tremendously because of that relationship, since first partnering in 2008
FADECO was started in 1992, by a husband and wife team who also founded Hopeline Institute, our local partner in Accra, Ghana. FADECO has seen significant growth year after year. Here, Dennis proudly displays the final product.
In order to keep up with the growth of the company, FADECO invested in the construction of a window manufacturing facility.
FADECO has created over 150 jobs.
Surtab facility in Port-au-Prince where North American attendees from 100k Jobs’ conference last January visited. Surtab manufactures state of the art tablets in Haiti, changing perceptions about what Haiti can make and export. The company has been featured in multiple news outlets and business is booming.
Haitian workers rigorously test products before they are shipped for sale.
During a visit to Surtab, Benson, a client of our local partner in Gonaives, Haiti who manufactures leather products in his small workshop, connected with Maarten, the CEO of Surtab. Discovering that Sutab devices have only vinyl cases, Benson and Maarten collaborated and after an initial prototype, Benson manufactures and supplies leather cases for all Surtab products.
In his early 20’s, Benson’s passion for entrepreneurship stems from his desire to create jobs, employ others in his community, and create a brighter future for all. Here his employees are in his workshop assembling some of the journals he also manufactures and sells.
After feeling called to start a business in Haiti, Matthew Flippen founded TopLine Materials to manufacture and sell high-quality block, a popular construction material in the country. TopLine Materials is an Implementing Partner of 100k Jobs in Haiti, our initiative in Haiti aiming to create and sustain 100,000 jobs in Haiti by the year 2020, 10 years after the devastating earthquake the country experienced.
This is the TopLine aggregate concrete plant in Haiti. The relationship between PW and TopLine began when our Caribbean Regional Facilitator was introduced to Matthew, who in turn introduced him to a very successful concrete producer who traveled to see Matthew and introduced Matthew to a man who is now one of his main investers. Matthew also started a redi-mix business and now has six trucks on the road full time with more on the way.
Matthew’s goal is to employ 400 people.
Last January, an American businessman in the construction materials industry attended the 100K Jobs in Haiti conference and was introduced to Matthew. This got Matthew started in the pre-cast business. TopLine Materials now makes precast columns and panels for security walls. They just sold over six kilometers of wall for the new port being built, just seven miles from TopLine's plant.
Ralph Edmonds is deeply involved in the Partners Worldwide network in Haiti.
Mentor meeting in Haiti
Ralph, his mentors and an architecture consultant meet at the PW offices a few weeks ago to plan the next expansion of his facilities.