Vocational Training

Empowering both the local community and the children in our homes as they reach adulthood by offering education in practical skills such as tailoring, auto mechanics, baking and animal husbandry, as well as small business management. Equipped to launch their own businesses, graduates will be set up to achieve long-term financial stability and improved quality of life for their families.

You can help make the Training Center a success by partnering with us to provide the following:

For the last two centuries, Haiti’s government has been ridden with corrupt, greedy and self-serving leaders. As a result, the people of Haiti continue to suffer.

Due to the typical nature of a developing country, the Haitian culture is based on survival and a “today” mode of operation. Haitians buy what they need to survive just for the day today, and, in general, do not consider saving or preparing for tomorrow.

Currently, it is estimated that there is a 90% unemployment rate in Haiti’s white collar industry and a 80% unemployment rate in the trades industry.

The process of slavery feeds on poverty. The goal of the Micro-Financing Program in conjunction with the Vocational Training Center is to break the backbone of slavery by giving Haitians an education and business opportunity so that they will be able to support their family. With the financial support from their own business and education, along with the support of a community found in their church, we hope too, one by one, we will see the children at the Regency and Mercy Homes, as well as the members of Mission Church of Jesus Christ the Redeemer, end the cycle of slavery.

The Vocational Training Center will start with 5 basic and sustainable training opportunities: welding, auto mechanics, chicken husbandry, baking and sewing.

There are three (3) basic steps to graduate from the Vocational Training Center with a micro-loan:

1. A church member, or a child from the Regency Home or Mercy Home, is vetted for training opportunities.
2. Each Training Center student will be guided through an 18 month process, including Christian business ethics, entrepreneurship, and budgeting classes.
3. Upon graduation from the classes, the student will be given a grant. The graduate will be expected to pay back the grant to the church so that the opportunity can be made available to other church members and children at the Regency and Mercy Homes.

Graduates of the program will be held accountable by the church community, which we believe will keep the program successful since the Haitian culture feeds on community pride.

Graduates of the program will also have access to the church’s benevolence fund, so that if something should arise within their families, the church community will be able to provide according to their needs, as the body of Christ is called to do. This will encourage graduates to tithe and give back to the same community that provided them with their business opportunity.

Connect 2 Ministries is excited to partner with organizations and supporters to impact the future of the Onaville community. Sponsor a Program: businesses interested in sponsoring a part of the Vocational Training Center can contact Wiley Kennedy, Director of International Ministries.

Businesses interested in sponsoring a part of the Vocational Training Center can contact Wiley Kennedy, Director of International Ministries.