Why Cap-Haïtien Cannot Wait

Cap-Haïtien is Haiti's second-largest city. More than a million people live here. The drains flood before every rainy season. Children grow up playing in streets lined with plastic bottles. Disease spreads. And thousands of young men and women in this city are unemployed, available, and willing to work with nothing to do.

The problem was never that Haitians don't want clean streets. The problem is that nobody ever built a system that paid them to create those streets.

CleanCap is that system.

A community member registers on the CleanCap app, claims a zone, cleans it, and deposits the waste in an official CleanCap bin. A trained local supervisor reviews the work and approves it.

CleanCap drivers collect the full bins and bring the waste to our recycling facility near the Cap-Haïtien port. There, plastic is shredded into pellets and shipped to buyers in Miami at $0.35–$0.55 per pound. That revenue funds the next cycle of operations.

We are targeting 120 paid cleaners across 10 zones in Cap-Haïtien by the end of Year 1.

We have a formal partnership with the Mairie de Limonade. They are putting 2 acres of land, their primary waste collection site, their garbage truck, and equipment behind this on day one.

We have five revenue streams: municipal contracts, client subscriptions, recycled material exports, data and dashboard licensing, and job placement fees.

Our projections, built on verified data and conservative assumptions:

Year 1 revenue: $132,519

Year 2 revenue: $344,549

Year 3 revenue: $723,554

We have a formal partnership with the Mairie de Limonade. They are putting 2 acres of land, their primary waste collection site, their garbage truck, and equipment behind this on day one.

We have five revenue streams: municipal contracts, client subscriptions, recycled material exports, data and dashboard licensing, and job placement fees.

Our projections, built on verified data and conservative assumptions:

Year 1 revenue: $132,519

Year 2 revenue: $344,549

Year 3 revenue: $723,554

$150,000 USD to raise;

This is our Phase 1 seed raise. It covers the app build, bin deployment, recruiting and training 120 cleaners, six months of team salaries, and operations until recycling revenue kicks in.

This is not the full cost of building CleanCap. It is the exact cost of getting CleanCap to the point where it generates its own revenue.

Help us build something Cap-Haïtien has never had a system that actually works, for the people who actually live here.