Minister Georges Wilbert Frank•©️Stéphane Daïley Lubin
Port-au-Prince, August 5, 2025.- On the occasion of the 20th edition of the "Tuesdays of the Nation" on August 5, the Minister of Social Affairs and Labour, Georges Wilbert Franck, announced the implementation of five new social projects. These initiatives aim to strengthen assistance to the most vulnerable, including internally displaced persons, artisans and unemployed youth.
Speaking under the Multisectoral Emergency Programme (MEP), which is already assisting more than one million internally displaced persons, Minister Franck recalled the joint efforts of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour (MAST), six other ministries and the Fund for Economic and Social Assistance (FAES) to relocate 10,000 families. To date, 3,000 of them have already been relocated, freeing up several previously occupied public spaces.
The Minister then detailed his department's five priority projects. Among them is the launch, scheduled for Monday, August 11, of a programme to support the National Art Office (ONART) to support Haitian artisans. He also announced:
Modernization of the Social Assistance Fund (CAS);
The establishment of the National Unemployment Insurance Office, pending validation;
A compulsory professional internship programme targeting 20,000 young people;
And a series of legislative reforms, including the overhaul of the Labour Code, deemed obsolete, as well as the revision of the MAST organic law.
These measures are part of the Ministry's stated desire to modernize its intervention framework and to provide concrete responses to the country's social emergencies.
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