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A scene on the main street of the village. Nearby, Corinne Joachim-Sanon's team removes beans from pods on the spot and only transport the best quality beans back to the truck and then drying facility. Corinne is here to buy beans from small scale farmers. In total, Corinne's workers bought 600 kg of cacao beans that day.
Corinne Joachim-Sanon had the doors open to jobs in major corporations in the United States. She did an internship at L’Oreal, worked at Accenture and had an Industrial and Operations Engineering degree from the second best program in the country (Michigan Engineering). She added to that degree MBA from the Wharton School of Business.
Ambitious, smart and focused, Corinne was set to quickly climb a corporate ladder. But the Haitian native was nagged by a different kind of ambition. She wanted to run her own business. She wanted to put her industrial engineering knowledge into practice as an entrepreneur. This New York City resident wanted to design and build a factory. A factory and a distribution network for her products. A factory that would provide well paying jobs to people in her native Haiti. Yes, Corinne wanted to make a profit as an entrepreneur, but she also wanted to help elevate the Haitian people’s economic conditions.
She and her husband invested $160,000 of their own money to start the company. They used a building owned by Corinne’s grandfather as a factory location.
Corinne did her research and decided to focus on chocolate since Haiti is known for providing specialty cacao for some of the best chocolate manufactures in the world. But rather than supplying the raw material, Corinne built the FIRST beans to bars factory in Haiti. They control the entire production and distribution process. The company Askanya gathers cacao from 3,000 farmers and distributes the chocolate bars to stores in the United States and Haiti. They have their eyes set on the likes of the Whole Foods as a future distribution network.
Ouanaminthe, Haiti 11/05/16
Photo by Marcin Szczepanski/Multimedia Director and Senior Producer, University of Michigan
Heather Goetsch (Right), Environmental Engineering PhD Student, speaks about a urine-diverting urinal that is part of a research project to turn urine into fertilizer in the G.G. Brown Building on North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI on January 24, 2017.
The toilet has a split bowl and is designed to send solid waste to a wastewater treatment plant, but route urine to a holding tank. Urine diverted from this toilet and the urinal will be treated and eventually used to create fertilizers for agricultural use, possibly at U-M's Nichols Arboretum.
These facilities are part of a $3 million National Science Foundation project that is the nation's largest exploring the technology, systems requirements and social attitudes associated with urine-derived fertilizers.
Photo: Joseph Xu/Michigan Engineering Multimedia Content Producer, University of Michigan - College of Engineering
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Looking down at the water crashing on the rocks on the Niagara River, near Horseshoe Falls.
I rarely shoot in square format unless it's on my phone, but I'm enjoying experimenting with the features of the X-T3 and I like that I can compose the photo for a square print in camera so I know what my result will be. When you wait 10+ years to upgrade your gear, the learning curve is exhilarating.
Annual Christmas Lighting Ceremony and Carol Sing. Photo by Dan Calnon - For more photos, visit photos.bju.edu/christmaslighting2015