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MOZAIK INSTITUTE

Geographically Haiti is at a prime location at less than two hours away from the United States, bordering the Dominican Republic with the added advantage of its Caribbean climate it is rated as the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Thus, quality of life, high-tech services which are key to economic success are lacking.

The MOZAIK Institute project hopes to create four main Technical/Vocational Training schools in five main locations in Haiti (Port-au-Prince, the Capital, Cap-Haitian in the Northern Region, Jeremie in the Grand-Anse region; Jacmel the South and the Central region of Hinche. These Institutes will provide sophisticated and high quality professional and technical training with an improve curricula that is industry specific and expertise that benefit both the local and the foreign affiliate.

MOZAIK Institute is multipurpose and able to deliver a broad range of vocational education market-relevant and innovative training services to secondary level students, dropouts, low skill laborer, knowledge and values for employability and lifelong learning in a global economy; adults learners to acquire skills with basic reading, writing and comprehension courses; Industry and government agencies ‘staff looking to upgrade their skills or opportunities to reinvent themselves and maximize their potential, industries with a globally-competent and innovative workforce.

Objectives

Develop state of the art infrastructure to provide students with high quality, innovative and market-relevant technical education to meet the workforce development in Haiti

Provide an innovative Adult Literacy program for excellence

Create strategic alliances for innovation that would provide industries and Haiti with the highest skills for global competitiveness

Challenge the current structure into taking a new look at everything we do and how we do them while forging ahead in the international realm of vocational and technical education

Optimize opportunities in the employment market and enable enterprise to be competitive, sustainable and successful in the marketplace.

The world has gone to great tranformaiton from an economy based on material goods to that of knowledge. This has transformed the shape of society and thereby its economic base by the nature of production, trade, employment and work.

To become a major player in the world market, Haiti’s workforce has to acquire skills and training that would be not only be beneficial to the country but of necessity in the world market of today. Without the necessary know-how of this era Haiti’s transactions at the global level is severely injured and at the local level the Haitian society’s quest for sustainable development will continue to fall short, farmers will not have the necessary knowledge to use up to date equipment, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) will also be affected due to lack of qualified labor force or the country will continue to suffer where the locals will continue to receive low-wage service jobs and expatriates higher wage jobs and brought in to perform the skilled work or simply out of the loop for foreign direct investment all together.

To increase opportunities, the education sector has to transform its curriculum to be able to offer a competitive advantage to the citizens of Haiti and the country itself. Competition has become more and more global it is important that Haiti integrate knowledge and information in its academic regimes these structural adjustments which will impact its economy as it will increase the production of goods and services and in so doing it will gain a competitive edge at the global level and an inflow of FDI.

The training that the institute will concentrate on are: