OPODNE’s Terrier Rouge Leaders Planning Restaurant Cooperative to Lift Local Economy

With an investment of $3,000, OPODNE leaders will establish a restaurant that caters to the hundreds of people who travel weekly to and from Cap Haitien and the Dominican Republic.  In anticipation, some of these leaders are attending training in culinary arts provided by the City College New York through a partnership established by OPODNE founder and CUNY professor, Francois Pierre Louis.

Terrier Rouge is one of six economic development projects launched by OPODNE, where thirteen communities are organizing in the Northeast Department. Refusing to be crushed by two centuries of occupation and intervention, economic challenges and environmental disasters, leaders in Terrier Rouge exemplify the Haitian drive for self-determination.