Help Wanted: Mercy Corps’ Cash-For-Work Program Creates Jobs for Haitians
Mercy Corps is using cash-for-work to help Haitians get back on their feet after last month's earthquake.
The idea behind cash-for-work is to create jobs immediately by paying local Haitians a fair daily wage to clear rubble from roads and around schools, houses, and businesses. The great thing about cash-for-work is that participants earn much-needed cash so they can buy food and supplies, and quickly gets cash moving through the local economy.
Mercy Corps’ cash-for-work program recently caught the attention of the American Public Media’s MarketPlace. Bill Holbrooke, Mercy Corps’ country director for Haiti explains to MarketPlace how the cash-for-work program's focus on job training will help Haiti's economy in the long-term. “There are meaningful, long-term jobs in the construction sector that have very few qualified people to fill. And so we’ve gotta address that.” Through the cash-for-work program, Mercy Corps will help Haitian communities build a skilled workforce that can lift families out of poverty.
Last Friday photographer Miguel Samper visited a cash-for-work site on payday. Check out his photos below.
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Wow, these are Miguel
Wow, these are Miguel Samper's photos are excellent at capturing a wonderful way to help a country that is in great need of continued assistance and support. I only hope that I will have the opportunity at a further time to volunteer my nursing services to Haitians children in need of medical care. This month there is a team of nurses from Doernbecher Children's Hospital, my place of employment, who will be heading over to Haiti to work in a newly set-up Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. I'm excited for the team who will be going, but at the same time, disappointed that I cannot join them due to my school schedule. I am really looking forward to talking to my coworkers about their experiences when they return.
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