Legislative Fellow Provides Business Training Literacy to 10 People living with Disabilities in Port-au-Prince Haiti

People living with disabilities
ready to learn

The Legislative Fellows Program strives to open new opportunities for participants and their home and host organizations. New skills developed during your fellowship and the new relationships that have been built should continue to impact your community for years. As a Fellow, Doudly Elius has the responsibility to transfer what he has learned to others in his organization and his community.

Partners provide Fellows with various resources to help them transfer new skills and knowledge to their communities upon their return. One of the most important of these resources is the Community Project Grants.

The Community Project Grants are designed to help Fellows:

      Legislative Fellow Doudly Elius
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 1) Continue developing new skills through community engagement 

and network building;

2) Use their skills and expertise to give back to their home and 

host communities.

Community Project Grants are small grants to provide seed funding

to new projects developed by Fellows and collaborating organizations 

or to expand existing projects in which the Fellows are working. 

In addition to the funds provided, Fellows also have the opportunity

 to connect to Partners’ hemispheric network of volunteers to 

find mentors, learn about and adapt project methodologies,

and partner with local volunteers and organizations. 

Legislative Fellow Doudly Elius wrote his community project to reach these following objectives:

-.10 people with physical disabilities will be able 
to prepare their own business plan to start a business in the future and generate their own revenues if 
they receive some funding from a micro-finance institution

-. The project will empower them with new 
skills and knowledge to share business ideas to
 other people with disabilities 

-. If they want to start a business immediately after the project is ended, they will be connected to a business mentor or a student advisor to guide them through the process and help them finding fund to invest into the project.