Many children in the Hearth program steadily improve in weight and health long after the program completes, and mothers continue to employ the education and child-health practices they learned. However, some families do not have the resources to provide even one meal a day for the people in the household, and the children begin to decline again after a couple of months.

The Nutrition Program has partnered with Fonkoze Bank, a successful microcredit organization functioning across Haiti. Microcredit is a successful approach used in low-income countries to provide loans to families to begin small businesses. Mothers of malnourished children who have ‘graduated’ the Ti Foye program are offered enrollment in the microcredit program, taught about how to run a small business, and given an initial loan (about 60 dollars US). If this loan is repaid on time, these women are eligible for a second, larger loan.

The CNP facilitates the participation of Hearth mothers into Fonkoze's program and works with the mothers to develop a business plan. Some mothers are buying and reselling clothes in the marketplace, and others have used their loan to buy a grinder and are making peanut butter and coffee to sell. These women indicate that they are now able to afford more food and basic needs of their families. The Nutrition Program is following these children to see if, over time, children are heal thier if their mothers are involved in small business.