Micro-credit
The amounts lent by the Allocation Council range between 60 and 100 CHF.
They are used to start small businesses (bread, drinks, street cooking).
There have been no outstanding payments to date.
Income-generating programs
On a 15ha plot:
- 13 cows (+ a bull) drinking from a small artificial lake;
- 59 hives.
These farms will encourage the young people of the agronomy school, knowing that there is less and less honey and meat in the country.
On a 22ha plot, are grown for sale:
- sugar cane (17ha);
- firewood;
- 15 000 mango trees.
2) One of the two buildings of the Jean Price Mars University, currently empty, is being converted into a hotel with a capacity of 68 rooms.
The clientele is aimed at students coming from far away and visitors of the Cosmos Foundation.
Emergency Aid
After the earthquake of 2011, ASASE, Haiti-Cosmos and a Geneva logistics company went together to transport 1.5 tons of medical equipment, medicines and clothing to Hinche.