As part of the recovery program after the earthquake in January 2010 Star of Hope started a sewing school in the fall of 2010, as a pilot project where young women and men from the Boyer area have received professional level seamstress training.
They have been taught appropriate technology and given design skills to enable them to produce products that are marketable both inside Haiti and outside.
The school was a success and the pupils graduated in the summer of 2011. The program continued to Jeanton village in late 2011 and the students will graduate next week. In the fall the program continues in Hesse.
You can pictures from last years graduation here.