Computer Tablets being made in Hati

The company manufacturing the tablets, Surtab, was founded in 2013 by Maarten Boute , who is the CEO of Digicel Haiti, and by businessman Richard Coles. The company was backed, at start, with $450,000 in private capital and also received $200,000 in funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

Surtab’s factory is located in Port-au-Prince and employs over 60 employees with 90% of them women. According to the company’s website, surtab is a contraction of the French adjective sur and the English noun tablet.

There are three models and these include the high-end HD 3G model , the 3G model and the low end WiFi model.

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