In Mirebalais, Haiti, a line of women in blue aprons embroidered with the word Chakipi stood before Chelsea Clinton, vice chair of the Clinton Foundation.
The Haitian entrepreneurs spoke in Creole about their experience with door-to-door sales of household products like spaghetti, shampoo and corn flakes. And Clinton, who traveled to Haiti along with Clinton Foundation President Donna Shalala and supporters last week, revealed exclusively to Devex that given the results of the pilot in the Central Plateau, the model will scale nationally, while also expanding to Colombia and Nigeria.
“Now the women with their income are buying animals so they’ll have more products to sell, whether it’s milk or eggs,” Clinton said, explaining how, despite challenges ranging from extreme poverty to rampant domestic violence, female entrepreneurship is on the rise in this country. “You know that, to me, is incredibly inspiring.”