people.planet.profit
Our Founder
The founder is a board member of Kay Tita, a non-profit organization in Haiti. Kay Tita is a community-driven organization that cultivates strategic partnerships and empowers a growing entrepreneurial ecosystem in Port-au-Prince. As part of our efforts, we are building a sustainable community resource center that focuses on creating a collaborative, reliable, and globally connected space for young leaders to build out their impact-inspired visions
Haitian Girls Pop
Sustainable Fashion Design Empower Girls in Haiti
In 2018 we designed a collection called “Haitian Girls Pop” in order to bring awareness to the plight of Haitian girls living in poverty, working as child slaves with more than 40% of these young girls having experienced child molestation. We successfully donated funds to pay for 2 young girls to complete a year of primary school in Verrettes, Haiti.
Our longterm goal is to build a small scale factory in Haiti, where they will employ seamstresses to produce high quality eco-friendly clothing, teach free business design courses, and work with artists in the region. Her goal is to provide locals access to design houses across the globe, with hopes of boosting the economy and empowering the people of Haiti.
Pratt Institute Graduate Student Engagement Fund Grantee
Sustainable Fashion Design Empowers Girls in Haiti
Female agriculture officers and business owner’s. Member’s of the International Woman’s Coffee Alliance, in Arusha, Tanzania during a 3 day workshop
Triple Bottom Line by Design + Culture
Awarded a Pratt Institute Graduate Student Engagement Fund grant, Naika Colas conducted in situ research to surface challenges facing rural women working in the Northern Tanzania coffee industry. Financial literacy proved to be a main barrier to success. As a result, her team framed their research around the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals of Gender Inequality, Economic Growth, Innovation Infrastructure, and Partnership Goals to help women connect to income generating activities in their rural communities.
In partnership with the International Women’s Coffee Alliance Tanzania chapter and the Tanzania Women in Coffee Association, she prototyped workshops and a community resource platform using key ‘triple bottom line by design’ business methods taught within Pratt Institute’s Graduate Program in Design Management.