Yvon, Director and President of CEFORS, was at the time the technical coordinator at Agronomists and Veterinarians without Borders, an organization which supports cocoa farmers in the North. Responsible for bringing foreign experts to facilitate the cocoa fermentation process, he remarked that all the processed cocoa was exported while Haitians continued to consume unprocessed cocoa. He had the idea to make a simple quality chocolate for local consumption. And, serendipity, there was a lot of cocoa that could not be exported. He used this surp
Quality chocolate ‘Made in Haiti’
In 2011, with just 1,500 gourdes of cocoa, Yvon Yacinthe Faustin, a specialist in local development, timidly began his chocolate production company, named Centre de Formation et de Réhabilitation Sociale Centre de Formation et de Réhabilitation Sociale (CEFOR - Center for Training and Social Rehabilitation). He then possessed 2,000 tons of cocoa and the following year, their flagship product, Chocolate from the Mountain won the Award ‘Prix de la Simplicité’ (Simplicity Prize) from Femmes en democratie (Women in democracy). The product has since won supermarket shelves in Port-au-Prince and continued on the path of success generating over 2,000 jobs indirectly since its inception.
Par Le Nouvelliste
28 juil. 2016 | Lecture : 2 min.