Latin America & Caribbean Affiliates
Regional Overview
In a region rich with natural resources, culture, and history, Latin American and Caribbean businesspeople in the 21st century are finding abundant opportunities to fulfill their calling as Christians.
Today, Partners Worldwide walks alongside business people in Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Haiti, providing over 4,000 members of many different sectors with access to capital, training, mentoring, and advocacy. Small and medium business owners utilize loans to enhance value-added production and agribusinesses. Entrepreneurs and business people learn about effective and ethical business practices based on a biblical worldview and peer mentoring relationships. People also share the tool of training and networking to learn from one another, and to grow as individuals, communities, and nations.
Haiti - Jerusalem
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New Jerusalem, a business network in Gonaives, Haiti, empowers small and medium business owners in the manufacturing and agriculture sectors. By utilizing a “shareholder model”, New Jerusalem integrates local human and financial resources to offer business training and mentoring opportunities to its members. In 2009, New Jerusalem also led a business conference “Hope for a Sustainable Economy” in a city still climbing out of hurricane disaster and flooding from nine months before. Over 300 entrepreneurs from every sector in northern and central Haiti attended, taking part in unprecedented networking opportunities and workshops on practical business measures to strengthen their role as Christian businesspeople and entrepreneurs.
Stories
Local-Global Partnership Equips Business Professionals in Haiti
Monday January 31, 2011
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Wisconsin businessman Jack Van Der Ploeg knew he was called to mentor the first time he learned of opportunities with Haitian business professionals. “It was then that business-as-ministry clicked,” he says.
Rebuilding Haiti a block at a time
Sunday July 25, 2010
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In Haiti’s “City of Independence”, small and medium businesses in Gonaives are critical to a stable economy as people rebuild their livelihoods following severe flooding and disaster.
In 1995, businessman Wilsonor Jean decided to transition from his managerial role in a large concrete company and launched his own small business. Tapping into the solid rock outside the city in which independence was declared in 1804, Wilsonor created Jerusalem S.A. in Gonaives to supply high-quality bricks for the construction market.