All Blog Posts Tagged 'coop' (2)

Note: this is not a sales pitch by an NGO. It is a call for all interested people invested in Haiti to consider a new way to support Haitians for the long term, cooperatively, for basic human rights.



CHRH- Cooperatives for Human Rights In Haiti by Tom Luce, President of Hurah, Inc.… Continue

Hello, I'm new to Haiti Reconstruction so I haven't followed your page on "Bank&Infrastructure Needs". My question is has anyone here heard of the Banque Haitienne De Développement" (BHD)?



This was a cooperative bank, 51% owned by cooperatives beginning back in 1999. This was an innovation in a time when microcredit-caisses populaires had alrady been set in motion. The idea of the BHD was what I've caught here briefly and in the NYT's article Can Microlending Save Haiti? Doesn't… Continue