It's 50-50, of course, according to CIDA and our protocols.
How is it changing their families? Artisan activity is very much a family business and, of course, it involves children working after school and learning the trade of their family business.
In many respects, any artisan business involves men and women, but in terms of the four communities that we're working with, two are dominated by men and two by women. Two of the communities are textile based, so they're embroideries, quilting, and sewers. Those are the female communities. The benefits those women are deriving from this work is, I would say, night and day. All women work in Haiti, for sure, but to see women who have a skill increase their income because the products they're producing are now more marketable because they're better designed and better produced and they have some marketing and a route to market.... To see the impact on their lives is....
As I said, we've just done the baseline study at the start of this project, and we're going to measure it again at the end, after purchase orders have been filled. I could tell you better then, but I know that their incomes are probably going to triple at least.