About · BARSS Haiti - Konekte Kreye Travay

Our Mission

The Land as Engine, the Youth as Force

SAKALA Haiti has worked the North since 2003, and its cooperative KONKRET has put young Haitians to work since 2011. We are not a charity, and we do not hand out aid. We take the money already moving toward Haiti... a diaspora dollar, a sponsor's purchase... and turn it into jobs on Haitian soil and assets that stay. The land is the engine, the youth are the force, and our whole job is to be the trusted avenue between the money and the work.

KONKRÈT is not a project. It is an answer. An answer to discouragement, to unemployment, and to the inner exile of our youth.

Founding philosophy, KONKRET, 2011

A young person from KONKRET working the parcels, North of Haiti

Founding Facts

ORGANIZATION

SAKALA Haiti, since 2003

COOPERATIVE

KONKRET, North, since 2011

NETWORK

25 sites, 10 departments

MODEL

Cooperative and solidarity-based

DISTINCTION

CNN Heroes Nominee 2019
Daniel Tillias, Director

Our Model

How It Works

01

A Young Person Signs Up

A young Haitian, 16 to 25, applies. We sit with them first... what they can already do, what they want, what stands in the way. Then the training begins: real farming skill, plus what school never taught... handling money, handling conflict, working as a team. No one is turned away for having no experience.

02

An Employer Offers Work

A partner on the ground... a farm, a workshop, a cooperative campus... opens a real position: a steady wage, and meals on the workday, not a stipend that runs out in a week. From abroad, the diaspora can sponsor a campus directly and fund that position itself.

03

KONKRET Connects, and Stays

We make the match, then we do not disappear. A mentor follows the young person through the whole placement... showing up, smoothing the rough patches, making sure the wage is paid and the work is real. Support for the length of the journey, not just the first week.

04

They Earn, and They Own

The young person is paid, and as a member of the cooperative they share in what it builds... a stake held in gold the gourde cannot eat, an asset that stays. Not a beneficiary of a program. A co-owner of an economy. Income today, ownership for the long haul.

Our Values

Why Trust Us

Twenty Years, Not a Grant Cycle

We have been in the North since 2003, not parachuted in for one funding round. Every job is documented, every young person followed, every dollar tracked. Impact you cannot measure is a press release. Ours shows up in the community, by name.

Every Dollar Tracked, Nothing Skimmed

The cooperative belongs to its members and the books are open. Decisions are collective, income is split by rules everyone knows, and where your money lands is on a public ledger. No middleman's cut, no hidden beneficiaries... the exact leak the rest of aid runs on.

Owned by the People Who Build It

We grow with what the land already gives, no dependence on imported inputs, and no one shut out by gender or origin. What gets built is owned by the people who keep it alive. That is the line between aid that ends and wealth that stays.