Social Programs

Global women’s empowerment and life skills training program designed by Gap, Inc. The P.A.C.E. (Personal Advancement & Career Enhancement) program aims to support women working in the garment sector around the world, giving these women the foundational life skills, technical training and support that will help them advance in the workplace and in their personal lives.

Share Hope is honored to be an official licensee, authorized and certified to implement this program in Haiti. As of December 2021 over 1400 women graduated from this 52 hour curriculum!

Peer-to-peer health training program trains workers during their lunch break (with free food!) on basic health modules, including personal hygiene, nutrition, waterborne diseases, HIV/AIDS, family planning, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and waste management.

Since launching this program in 2014 with the support of Levi Strauss Foundation, 8,750 women in 6 factories have benefited from this peer-to-peer curriculum.

ShareHope is working with the factory management and health staff to improve the functionality of the clinics inside the factories. This includes training nurses, establishing standardized protocols including patient data collection, and helping them to better monitor the daily health of the workers. 14 of the 33 factories in Haiti have been or are presently enrolled in this program. These factories employ approximately 29,000 workers. Enrollment in this program is the basis for participation in other intermittent health initiatives.

In the Fall of 2017, Share Hope, in partnership with Innovating Health International and Better Work Haiti began an initiative to provide information and free screenings for cervical cancer (HPV) and breast cancer for women working in the garment sector in Haiti. Appropriate follow up care and procedures were also provided. In addition factory nurses have been trained on related protocol in order to better serve workers and to increase sustainability. By April 2019 Share Hope met and surpassed the goals by screening 4,000 + women for cervical cancer and 5,000 + for breast cancer.

We run an after-work program for 40 workers per academic year that want to finish high school and get their diploma. Our slogan is “Finish What You Started”, because we believe that by reaching goals we never believed we could reach, we are able to take pride in ourselves, our work, and our achievements. Since its inception 171 workers have completed this program. Share Hope is a recognized academic institution able to submit students to the Haitian National Exam.

Haiti has a significant deaf and hard of hearing community, and we are committed to providing equal access to these workers through a number of programs, including free custom hearing aids through partnership with Starkey Hearing Foundation, as well as speech pathology sessions, and sign language and literacy classes. In the Port-au-Prince area there is unique population of approximately 100 identified deaf and hard of hearing people employed in the garment sector, approximately 70 of these participate in our programs.