FOTO KONBIT, INC.
MIAMI, FLORIDA

FotoKonbit provides photographic and computer training and helps students use photography to pay for their education.  FotoKonbit was founded in 2010 by a group of Haitian and American photographers, artists and educators. We have worked with over one hundred students from nine different communities and we are currently working in five communities; a group of adults in the southern agricultural town of Camp Perrin, adults in the fishing village of Labadie, children in the cities of Jacmel and Cap Haitien and we teach a weekly photography classes at the Centre d'Art in Port-au-Prince.  In 2011 we began working with a group of ten men and women from the fishing village of Labadie which is very close to Haiti's only cruise port, in the north of Haiti. The participants of this group have been documenting their lives, community and some surrounding historical locations and are now able to sell the images they have produced as gift cards to tourists at the Labadie resort.  We also work with groups of children in the cities of Jacmel and Cap Haitien. With both of these groups the children have photographed historic sites and architecture, learned about the history of their towns and documented their communities. We are selling prints made by both the Jacmel and Cap Haitien groups to create school funds for the children.