Welcome! By being here, you’ve either purchased a cap (thank you!) or you're interested in learning more about this cap and its design. By doing so, you’re not only supporting our friends at Ciele Athletics, but your purchase also helps us, WORK, end generational poverty.

Our mission here at WORK is to accompany families in Haiti and beyond out of poverty through good, dignified jobs. After years of learning from families, building a wrap-around service model, and piloting job creation programs, we knew that dignified work was the key to ending poverty. In 2018, the team turned our focus to job creation, training, and placement.

Around the same time, our founder Ian Rosenberger launched Thread, a sister company dedicated to turning trash into jobs and useful stuff that people love. The majority of our family members are informal waste collectors, the true heroes of waste supply chains. They do the crucial work of collecting and diverting plastic from the oceans and landfills.

You may be wondering how this hat ties into Ciele Athletics. They have been a proud sponsor of our Run Across Haiti® and Move With Us campaigns for the past few years and share our belief in the power of jobs to end poverty. Our friends at Ciele have partnered with us to release exclusive hat collaborations.

This design is the most unique to date. Rather than continue with another black or white edition of their GO Cap, we chose green—the color of the plastic that our collectors in Haiti gather. The Block By Block is a nod to our origins of taking a block by block approach of accompanying families in Menelas, Haiti.

The "200" on the cap represents the 200 miles that our runners completed in our past event, Run Across Haiti®. Our runners conquered 200 miles over 8 days, running from the northern tip of the country to its southern end to show that Haiti is not one to be feared or pitied. While our Run is currently on pause, our community stays active and involved through our Endurance Challenge, taking on the toughest races across the globe while raising money for programs that accompanies our families.

This GO Cap design also symbolizes our organization's growth and expansion. After spending nearly a decade in Haiti, we've witnessed the power of jobs in ending poverty for our families, while addressing the global waste crisis. We recognize that our successful model can be implemented in other landfill communities around the world through our program, First Mile. Today we are scaling First Mile systems change around the globe.

We hope you'll continue on this journey with us and invite you to sign up to receive our impact updates. Thanks again for your support.